1111 Capital

Marquis Williams

Welcome to the 1111 Capital podcast. Saint Marquis is your host. 1111 Capital provides motivation, tactics, advice, and skills for all aspects of your marketing, sales, financial, venture capital, and entrepreneurial journey. As an emerging sales leader, this channel provides advice from someone who is in the same role and deals with the same struggles. Execute these tactics every day and double up.

Episodes

  1. 06/10/2020

    Episode #9: Brooke S. Sinclair (Founder of VelourIt) On Entrepreneurship + Raising Capital from VCs (Part 2)

    (PART 2) In Episode 9, Founder and CEO Brooke S. Sinclair discusses VelourIt. VelourIt makes importing simple and easy. Born from coincidence, an opportunity to import wine from Argentina into the states, the export management company Velour Imports grew from one idea and then, on its own, turned into a digital marketplace and distribution platform. #founder #startup VelourIt for all your import needs. Translated the slogan “Import it, VelourIt” means why import it yourself when you can VelourIt? VelourIt intends on being Latin America’s #1 site for simplified importing goods. Beginning with the Caribbean’s Community Based Tourism (CBT) and Resilience projects. In the next five years, VelourIt will be the Caribbean’s one-stop-online-shop for value-added food & beverages to resale in Latin America’s private luxury market.  Brooke S. Sinclair is a Serial Entrepreneur and Chief Executive Officer. Brooke S. Sinclair, is no stranger to overcoming challenges in her life. Transportation, distribution, and supply chain management expert turned founder. Before the Import/Export industry, Brooke worked as a Retail Donation Manager for Houston Food Bank. She managed three remote distribution programs worth $9M a year. One year after taking the role program value increased to $11M, she reduced overtime by 6%, and reduced waste and trash removal cost by nearly $100,000. Her second year, she added on 2 other programs and increased program value to over $15M.   Brooke holds a BA in Organizational & Corporate Communications, an MS in Project Management from Walden University, and certification in Finance from Rice University in addition to a semester abroad in India. Her areas of expertise include global supply chain management, bias rehabilitation, the new majority, and Black women in technology & logistics. She is passionate about increasing access to STEM for underrepresented youth as they travel through the high school to tech startup pipeline.

    5 min
  2. 06/10/2020

    Episode #9: Brooke S. Sinclair (Founder of VelourIt) On Entrepreneurship + Raising Capital from VCs (Part 1)

    In Episode 9, Founder and CEO Brooke S. Sinclair discusses VelourIt. VelourIt makes importing simple and easy. Born from coincidence, an opportunity to import wine from Argentina into the states, the export management company Velour Imports grew from one idea and then, on its own, turned into a digital marketplace and distribution platform. #founder #entrepreneurship VelourIt for all your import needs. Translated the slogan “Import it, VelourIt” means why import it yourself when you can VelourIt? VelourIt intends on being Latin America’s #1 site for simplified importing goods. Beginning with the Caribbean’s Community Based Tourism (CBT) and Resilience projects. In the next five years, VelourIt will be the Caribbean’s one-stop-online-shop for value-added food & beverages to resale in Latin America’s private luxury market.  Brooke S. Sinclair is a Serial Entrepreneur and Chief Executive Officer. Brooke S. Sinclair, is no stranger to overcoming challenges in her life. Transportation, distribution, and supply chain management expert turned founder. Before the Import/Export industry, Brooke worked as a Retail Donation Manager for Houston Food Bank. She managed three remote distribution programs worth $9M a year. One year after taking the role program value increased to $11M, she reduced overtime by 6%, and reduced waste and trash removal cost by nearly $100,000. Her second year, she added on 2 other programs and increased program value to over $15M.   Brooke holds a BA in Organizational & Corporate Communications, an MS in Project Management from Walden University, and certification in Finance from Rice University in addition to a semester abroad in India. Her areas of expertise include global supply chain management, bias rehabilitation, the new majority, and Black women in technology & logistics. She is passionate about increasing access to STEM for underrepresented youth as they travel through the high school to tech startup pipeline.

    16 min
  3. Kelly Mitchell Discusses Invidica, WinView Games, and How to Start an E-Commerce Business | EP 6

    12/05/2020

    Kelly Mitchell Discusses Invidica, WinView Games, and How to Start an E-Commerce Business | EP 6

    In Episode 6, Head of Sales Kelly Mitchell speaks on Invidica and his partner and founder Sean Bovell. Invidica is a B2B platform in the E-Commerce and manufacturing industry aiming to streamline and ease the manufacturing and product creation process, through allowing customers to communicate clearly with vetted manufacturers that they get to choose. Invidica care about the users on their platform and the clients products as well. They have partnered up with a variety of retail experts (distributors, retail sites, and marketing businesses) to help aid their clients and their products once the manufacturing has been completed. #ecommerce #1111vcfirm Kelly Mitchell also speaks on WinView Games. WinView, Inc., a Silicon Valley-based company, invented and pioneered second-screen interactive TV. They hold the foundational patents on the synchronized second screen experience. On May 11th, 2020 Torque Esports Corp. completed acquisition Frankly and WinView, Inc. which will soon change its name to Engine Media Holdings, Inc. (“Engine Media”). It is expected that this transaction will place Engine Media at the forefront of esports, news streaming and sports gaming across multiple media platforms.   Kelly Mitchell is an innovator, creator, and activist of change that sets trends, breaks stigmas, and Mitchell encourages people to invest not only into tech, but into the communities that they live in. Mitchell speaks on his involvement with Peoples Breakfast Oakland, a civil rights and social action initiative that serves homeless people and people in need with food and resources.

    1h 1m

About

Welcome to the 1111 Capital podcast. Saint Marquis is your host. 1111 Capital provides motivation, tactics, advice, and skills for all aspects of your marketing, sales, financial, venture capital, and entrepreneurial journey. As an emerging sales leader, this channel provides advice from someone who is in the same role and deals with the same struggles. Execute these tactics every day and double up.