I'm Mark and I've long had a love of both business and programming. I've run two moderately successful brick and mortar businesses, a failed tech startup and now a lifestyle business. This podcast is inspired by what I've learned over the past several years making the transition into the tech industry, working at startups in Beijing, Silicon Valley and elsewhere and then building my own profitable side projects. Whether you're currently an employee at a tech startup, an aspiring digital nomad with an interest in tech or already running a small lifestyle business, you just may learn something that saves you a lot of time, money and pain in your journey.
Arvid and his partner Danielle just sold their company, Feedback Panda, after scaling it to a $55k MRR in just under two years. The product is aimed a...
Episode Notes Mubashar Iqbal is a multi-time Product Hunt maker of the year. At the time of this recording, he's released 67 products and most have 10...
Episode Notes I sat down for a chat with my friend, Julien and asked him about his story of moving from the finance industry into tech, why he did it ...
Episode Notes In this episode Mark talks about how heatmaps and surveys were useful in the very early days of Alchemist Camp, how he used them and a c...
Episode Notes In this episode, Mark talks about feeling confused as a developer, why the feeling continues despite gaining technical skills and why a ...
Episode Notes In this episode, Mark talks about common scalability concerns and why they're not generally a good thing for an early stage boot-strappe...
Episode Notes In this episode, Mark talks about automation, where Unix luminaries saw its rise and where it's still undervalued, decades later. See: T...
Episode Notes In this episode, Mark talks about the single largest reason Alchemist Camp has worked—frugality. Leaving the San Francisco / Silicon Val...
Episode Notes Alchemist.Camp has been running for a year and it's time for a new experiment. In this episode, Mark gives a brief introduction and shar...