Ken McArthur


About Ken McArthur

Ken McArthur is the founder of ConnectLab.live, an AI relationship-intelligence and warm-intro platform that helps founders who are raising find the funds that fit and the people who can introduce them, and helps fund managers connect with the founders they back. He was recently accepted into Harvard Business School Foundry. He also writes Raise Smarter, a daily newsletter on what's really moving in early-stage fundraising. Ken challenges us to realize we ALL have an impact, whether we want to or not, on thousands of people we touch in our day-to-day lives, and he shows that simple things make a HUGE difference. ConnectLab.live grew out of that belief. Connection is the currency of the 21st Century, and the right introduction can change a company's future. Long before ConnectLab, Ken was the popular host of live events that brought together top-level marketers, entrepreneurs, business owners, corporations and non-profit organizations to build multi-million dollar joint venture relationships. He has managed product launches ranked in the top 400 sites on the Internet and is regularly asked to speak at leading marketing events. He created AffiliateShowcase.com, a pioneering affiliate program search engine and directory. He also founded the MBS Internet Research Center, which conducted the world's largest survey ever attempted on creating and launching successful information products. Ken was the official mentor for Sterling Valentine as he took his launch from zero to over $100,000 in less than 8 days, a proof of concept documented in Info Product Blueprint. Today he puts that same skill for connecting people and launching ideas to work for founders and the investors who back them.

Meta and NFTs

It looks like Meta will be joining the hordes of companies taking a look at NFTs. According to the Financial Times, Meta is working on plans to allow users to create and sell non-fungible tokens including a feature that will allow users to display their NFTs on their social media […]


How Many of These OUTRAGEOUS Statements Do You Agree With?

I’m actively thinking about reinvigorating my YouTube Channel, but there are some people I would love to have subscribe and others not so much! Check out these OUTRAGEOUS statements and you can figure out how many you agree with!  If you agree, I’d love to have you comment on the […]


Mentors

People ask me who my mentors are. I always think of Ed Johnson and Mike Wert. When I decided to become an entrepreneur again at the start of the dot com boom, I asked a friend to recommend someone to give me advice. He suggested that I meet with Ed […]


Propofol is the drug that killed Michael Jackson.

He was getting ready for a concert tour and desperately wanted some rest. He got to sleep, but it was more permanent than expected. More commonly, Propofol is a very good anesthetic for milder sedation used for outpatient surgery. Like my last colonoscopy. It’s the drug that replaced Sodium Pentothal […]


NFTs For Filmmakers

NFTs (or “non-fungible tokens”) are a special kind of crypto asset in which each token is unique. You may have heard about record-breaking sales of NFTs. An artist named Beeple sold a collage of 5,000 “all-digital” works for a staggering $69 million.  You can think of NFTs as being kind […]


For People Giving Feedback on Projects

USEFUL feedback includes things like: 1. This is really going to hurt you if you put it out. I love it and don’t change a thing. Just put it out. I think you could make it better by … You should really talk to … UNUSEFUL feedback includes: You are […]


How Much Do You Really Know About Ken McArthur

x HOW MUCH DO YOU REALLY KNOW ABOUT ME? I recently spoke at Larry Steinhouse’s “Your Piece of the Good Life” event. Very few of the attendees knew anything about my background so I had the very talented Paul Marturano, put together a voiceover that listed just a FEW of […]


Are you intimidated or inspired by brilliant, successful people?

Honest answer: Are you intimidated or inspired by brilliant, successful people? I mentioned to you that when I went back to college to study music at age 30+, I didn’t know the notes on the bass clef … and I was a bass/baritone.But to get back into college I still […]


UNFAIR ADVANTAGE

We are born knowing nothing. For me, it lasted a bit longer. When I went back to college to study music at age 30+, I didn’t know the notes on the bass clef … and I was a bass/baritone. Some amazing teachers ignored the fact and took me from ignorance […]


How to Win at Everything

There’s a flip side to everything. Almost anything is at least partly true. You can’t trust anyone all of the time. Everyone fails. Nobody is always on your side. So how do you win at everything? Remember the old saying, “The more you know, the less you know,” well it’s […]