Connect with Million Dollar Founders
DC Black is a Private Network for 7 & 8 Figure Entrepreneurs
To be included in masterminds that start in July, you must apply to DC Black by May 24th.
Tired of always being the biggest business in the room?
DC Black is a community of verified seven figure founders, working to grow 8-figure online businesses and exits.
Congratulations, you’ve made it - but you still want to build. It’s hard enough to find other seven figure founders, and even harder to find ones that still have that fire in their belly to keep growing.
You’ve chosen to do something big with your life, and there aren’t a lot of people who can relate. Either they’re years behind or comfortable where they’re at.
That’s ok, the bigger your company gets, the more unique it’ll be, but we all need peers to bounce ideas off of along the way.
That’s where DC Black comes in.
After 10+ years of running a community for entrepreneurs, we’ve realized that seven figure founders have different challenges. Especially on the journey to eight figures. It’s harder to find curated spaces for that type of ambition.
DC Black connects you with others that have built growing, profitable, location independent businesses.
There are currently 100 of us, with an average annual revenue of $4,000,000 USD. We help each other with the unique challenges of growing a remote, online business of this size.
Our team creates a variety of experiences and conversations to help you connect with others who share similar challenges, and want to make it fun along the way.
If this sounds like a good fit for you, we’d love to have you. Click the link below so we can talk.
Sincerely,
Dan Andrews & Ian Schoen
on behalf of the DC Team
Requirements to Join
Minimum of $1,000,000 in annual revenues (we will also consider recent large exits, raised rounds, or exceptional SDE #’s).
For the right founders, we can return your investment many times over.
If you are running a 7- or 8-figure business, joining DC Black is your next growth strategy.
DC Black at a Glance
With 100 7+ figure founders, there’s plenty going on every month.
Weekly conversations in our forum and text group chats.
Member-led strategy sessions.
Monthly masterminds facilitated by our team.
Executive workshops led by our team.
In-person meetups in incredible cities around the world.
Instant connections to the DC’s most talented founders.
Who’s in DC Black
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Amar Ghose
Amar is the founder and CEO of ZenMaid, a SaaS company that automates processes for maid services. He's a soccer fan, marketing enthusiast, and avid audiobook listener. As a SaaS marketing expert, he also helps other software companies think creatively about their strategy and growth. Amar grows his business while maintaining a full-time travel lifestyle.
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Taylor Pearson
Taylor is an author, entrepreneur and investor who explores ways to make better investment decisions in an unknown economy. He co-founded Mutiny Fund and published "The End of Jobs", arguing that people should focus on building personal brands as traditional jobs become obsolete. His work has been featured in NBC, Inc. and The Financial Times.
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Laura Roeder
Laura is the founder of Paperbell, a SaaS company that provides a customized CRM for coaches. At 22, she built her first company, LKR Social Media, which taught social media marketing to small businesses. She has founded and exited other companies including MeetEdgar and B-School, been named one of the top 100 entrepreneurs under 30, and spoken at the White House about entrepreneurship
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Daniel Schreiber
Daniel, co-founder and CEO of Nuli App, has been leading a dynamic startup championing women's health and fitness through its award-winning mobile app and online coaching since 2020. With a team of 30+ professionals, Nuli has reached over 47,000 subscribers. Based in Taipei, Daniel drives the company's growth and innovation in women's wellness.
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Justin Cooke
Justin is the co-founder of Empire Flippers and WebStreet, companies dedicated to helping entrepreneurs buy, sell and invest in profitable online businesses. Since 2010, he and his team have bought and sold over $450 million in online businesses. Justin lives a nomadic life with his wife, traveling throughout Southeast Asia, Europe and the US while being a brand ambassador for his company.
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Tommy Griffith
Tommy is the co-founder of ClickMinded, a company that provides a library of marketing SOPs and online courses for companies and their teams. Tommy has extensive experience in marketing, having previously worked for Airbnb and PayPal. After launching ClickMinded as a side hustle in 2017, his company has grown exponentially and now has over 50,000 customers.
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Alex Pantich
Alex is the co-founder of Upshift, a staffing platform that connects blue-collar workers with businesses in the hospitality and light industrial sectors. With a diverse background that includes running a landscaping business in high school, teaching English abroad, and founding an international publishing site, Alex's entrepreneurial spirit led him to co-found Upshift in 2016 and scale it into an eight-figure company.
Inside DC Black
Clarity on your key challenges
Every DC Black member receives a detailed onboarding with our team where we help dig in and address the challenges you currently face. We also offer you the opportunity to meet with our team (3) times a year for a 1:1 coaching call. We will walk alongside you, tracking your progress and helping you to connect you with other members and resources that can be helpful.
Feedback from high-level peers
You’ll be placed in a hand-picked group of founders working in similar industries that meets once a month, along with an expert facilitator from our team who comes prepared, and keeps everyone on track.
Building relationships with winners
DC Black members make it a priority to spend time with each other both in person and through a series of calls (we do 1:1 member meet calls regularly). Each in person event has its own concept, and are designed to facilitate meaningful and productive relationships.
Proven case studies
Every month, we invite a member or special guest to present on an area of expertise from which the entire group can benefit. We also host monthly operational learning sessions where we nerd out about what’s working under the hood of our operations.
Weekly discussions with other high-performers.
Members interact every day in the DC Black WhatsApp group and private forum. Members discuss everything from pricing models, management systems, to life admin, and investments. Every week, the forum is updated with a weekly email recap of the best conversations.
To be included in masterminds that start in July, you must apply to DC Black by May 24th.
Members: 100
Avg. revenue $4,000,000
Avg team size: 16 members
Industries: 29% SaaS / 24% eCommerce / 4% Publishing / 36% Productized Recurring Services / 6% High Level Consulting
Our members are located in: North America, Europe, Asia and Australia
Mostly bootstrapped.
Our Community By the Numbers:
DC Black members gain access to special day-long experiences at DC MEXICO and DCBKK. We also have DC Black only events planned in Barcelona (July), Austin (September), and New York City (December).
Our Live Events
DC Mexico
May 6-8, 2024. Run by the Dynamite Circle community. This major event has DC Black only access points.
DC Black: Barcelona
July 30 - Aug. 1, 2024. Member-only, 3 days of high-level business conversations, special guests, and connections.
Workshop Day in Austin
September 19, 2024. Join us for a FREE day in Austin, Texas, where we’ll dive into operational principles. This is a no-frills working session with DC Black peers and special guests.
DC Bangkok
Oct. 17 - 20, 2024. Run by the Dynamite Circle community. This major event has DC Black only access points.
DC Black: NYC
December 6 - 8, 2024. Member-only, 3 days of high-level business conversations, special guests, and connections.
Virtual Events
Peer-Led Sessions
We have an enormous amount of experience and expertise within the DC Black community. Peer-led sessions are hour-long calls where community members present on an area of expertise or success with time for Q&A from their DC Black peers. Topics have included sales funnels, hiring practices, niche podcasting, and marketing levers.
Scale Sessions
Every month, we host Scale sessions on a variety of operational practices. The goal of these sessions is to hear from one another about what is working, what is not working, and new ideas in the space of operations and scaling.‘Scale’ is an internal operational framework that is accessible and effective in helping businesses reach their short-, mid-, and long-term goals
Community Facilitators
Clare Jacky
Clare is an executive coach with hands-on experience developing and deploying business systems at scale.
As Chief of Staff at Drip (a marketing automation SaaS that serves thousands of customers), Clare onboarded over 100 employees and led the restructuring of the engineering organization.
Recently, she built Rally’s foundational strategic planning process and recruited the entire go-to-market team. She’s an expert at marrying strategies and processes to particular moments in your business.
Since joining the DC team, she has helped to build the DC Black community along with the DC Scale operational program.
Ian Schoen
Ian has founded two multi-million dollar lifestyle businesses (e-commerce & publishing).
He is the co-host of the Tropical MBA podcast and co-founder of the Dynamite Circle. Since 2011 he has been fortunate enough to have a front row seat to many of the world’s most successful online businesses through the DC.
In 2023 along with the DC team, he launched DC Black, a community for 7 & 8 figure entrepreneurs.
Previously, he founded and exited an e-commerce and product manufacturing company.
Richard Jalichandra
Richard is a seasoned technology executive with experience scaling technology companies in ad tech, e-commerce, mobile and SaaS.
Throughout his career as a CEO, he has led teams worldwide that have generated billions of dollars in revenue. He was previously Executive Chairman of Clickbank, CEO of bodybuilding.com, Mapmyfitness, Technorati and others. He also founded 101 commerce, the first Amazon FBA aggreator.
After living in Singapore for 10 years, he currently resides in Austin and is a General Partner of Incline Capital Investments LLC.
Mark Brenwall
Mark has been a member of the Dynamite Circle since 2013. He built a brand in the CrossFit space in early 2014, selling primarily on Amazon. The business went from zero to 7 figures in profit in less than 7 years.
In 2021 he sold the brand for a mid-7-figure exit. Since exiting, he’s been focused on investing primarily in real estate (Tbilisi, Prague, and Lisbon) and other cash-flowing investments.
Mark lives in Chiang Mai, Thailand, with his wife of 7 years.
To be included in masterminds that start in July, you must apply by May 24th.
FAQs
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You will fill out an application form that asks questions around your current business, your own entrepreneurial journey, and your goals. We will follow up with any questions we have once we receive your information. If you qualify, we’ll schedule a call to ensure it’s a good fit. We’ll ask for a signed P&L to verify you qualify for the revenue requirement.
Note that meeting the revenue requirement is necessary, but not a sufficient requirement.
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$4900/year
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It's a natural number in our community. Conversations change tone to issues specifically around the scaling up process. Also, we’ve been asked directly by DC members for this to be a necessary but not sufficient standard. Our aim is to build masterminds of founders who have overcome product market fit challenges and are seeking to Scale via connections with experts and others who are doing the same.
Note we also filter for founder fit, growth orientation, and other factors. The revenue requirement is necessary, but not sufficient.
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Yes! We will pair members with businesses that are at their scale, meaning if you are 5M+ or 10M+ you will be with other businesses at your same stage of growth.
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Having an expert facilitator and thresholds to enter into the community will create more structure and shared experience amongst participants, which can make a huge difference.
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It renews every 12 months.
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No. We understand that Masterminds may not fit everyone's style or schedule. You can opt in or out of Masterminds each January and July. If you opt out of Masterminds, the cost of the program will be $1,000 USD off the current price.
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Yes, but they must apply and pay fees as an individual. There is a $1K discount for the additional business partners per company.