#20 - Mehtab Bhogal - How to build a community and monetize it - a podcast by Smarter Destiny Podcast

Mehtab Bhogal is a young entrepreneur who has built several engaged communities around his passions and turned them into huge companies with massive preorders. He is the Co-Founder of Karta Ventures, a company that specializes in providing consumer brands or ecommerce stores with a funding source to fuel growth.

Bullet points

• 00:30 - Intro


• 01:50 - The first experience as an entrepreneur: creating a community


• 03:10 - Dropping out of college


• 05:10 - Working in digital marketing


• 06:50 - The guitar community


• 11:25 - The top three strategies for building a strong community


• 13:10 - Starting to monetize


• 14:00 - Getting other forums to participate in the community


• 15:05 - Facebook Groups and other options


• 18:15 - The transition towards Horizon Devices


• 21:25 - The beginning of Karta Ventures


• 23:30 - Looking to invest in other companies


• 24:45 - Karta Ventures investments


• 29:35 - Getting capital for deals


• 33:30 - When to resell the company


• 35:23 - Scaling the deal flow


• 36:50 - The most common mistakes in ecommerce


• 38:37 - Identifying a smart business owner


• 40:10 -The characteristics of the best businesses


• 42:10 - Rapid fire question round


• 42:38 - Any unusual drinking or eating habits?


• 43:09 - How do you get into a state of flow?


• 45:40 - What habit or opinion do you have that people tend to disagree with?


• 47:57 - What non-traditional lesson would you teach at school?


• 50:32 - What books had the biggest impact on your life?


• 53:00 - What does the first 30 minutes of your day look like and when does it start?


• 55:57 - Any advice for your previous boss or bosses?


• 57:01 - What do you do or where do you go to get inspired?


• 59:00 - How would you double USD 5K in 24h?


• 01:00:00 - What’s the best advice ever given to you?


• 01:02:28 - What silly thing should people do more of?


• 01:02:55 - Would you rather fight one horse-sized duck or one hundred-duck sized horses?


• 01:03:33 - How would you convince someone to do something that is good for them, but that they don’t want to do?


• 01:04:25 - What makes you happiest?


• 01:05:15 - Where to reach Mehtab


• 01:06:02 - Any asks or requests for the audience?

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