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In today’s episode I sit down with fellow Maltese entrepreneur Philip Camilleri, who recently made his exit from Smartasset.com, a company he co-founded in 2010 and through which he achieved tremendous success in the United States over the past 10 years. He is now hard at work on his new project Founderslist.com. We discuss the differences in the fintech spaces of Europe and the United State...

Kris Gunnars is the founder and ex-CEO of the world’s most trafficked nutrition site Authority Nutrition. He went on to sell that website to Healthline.com, which then became the world’s biggest nutrition site. Kris now dedicates his time to investing the handsome returns from the acquisition and runs Stockanalysis.com where he shares the results of his research and learning. In this c...

In today’s episode, I sit down for a chat with Chris Grech, one of my classmates from high school who has gone on to attain success as a CPA working with international clients and based out of Malta. We touch on various topics, including: Malta’s advantageous corporate tax system Whether Malta really is a “blockchain island” Investing in COVID-19 times and beyond Cryptocurrencies Real estate inves...

On this week’s show, Jean is joined by Gabriella Galea, his sister, and Yoran Brondsema, a European index investor and entrepreneur. Gabriella is new to the investing world and is trying to figure it all out, while Yoran has been researching the best way to invest and allocate assets in a sensible portfolio for several years. He developed a tool for Europeans to backtest different portfolios...

In this week’s episode we interview the CEO of Reinvest24, Mr Tanel Orro. This platform is one of my favorites as they are growing organically and doing things the right way. I like their updates on the properties they are working on as they record videos of the progress, and it seems that they are very responsible towards their investors, which is always good to see. We discuss many aspects...

This week we have Gustas from Evo Estate with us. This platform is different from the majority of online real estate investment platforms in that it is a curated aggregator of deals from various platforms. It is a platform that is dedicated to serving the investors’ needs, as Gustas emphasizes. In this episode, Jean is joined by his dad Joseph, an experienced finance expert and together they...

In today’s episode, Jean is joined by Sterling from P2P-Millionaire.com . Sterling is one of the biggest investors in peer-to-peer lending and has an active portfolio of over a million euros invested across several P2P platforms. We discuss how he built the initial capital that he now invests, thoughts about living in China, and how he goes about choosing P2P platforms. We touch upon setting...

In today’s episode, Jean is joined by Jørgen Wolf who is documenting his journey towards financial freedom on his blog. He promises to bare all: his income, his expenses and his investments. In our chat, we talk about the FIRE movement and differences between the European movement and the US movement, how he evaluates P2P platforms , living in Denmark, how to raise a financially intelligent...

In this episode, Jean interviews Matthew Melbourne from Republic.co , a platform where investors from all around the world can invest in US startups. Deal flow has been hard to come by for small investors in the US or investors outside the US with no contacts or physical presence in hotbeds for startups like San Francisco. Republic’s mission is to change all that and make investing easy and...

The episode is sponsored by  Plesk  and  Freemius . In this episode Mark is joined by Stephan Venter from WooCrew to discuss WooCrew, a WooCommerce maintenance and technical support service. The conversation delves a bit deeper into the most common struggles WooCommerce users face, what kinds of users are opting for WooCommerce today, and what tests and tools are being used to keep WooCommerce sto...

The episode is sponsored by  Plesk  and  Freemius . Today Jean is joined by Adrian Tobey in a chat recorded at the Collision conference in Toronto. We touch upon various topics like building a WordPress plugin business from scratch and what that entails, pitching to investors at big conferences, why WordPress people should attend conferences outside of the WP space, working with family members, an...

The episode is sponsored by  Plesk  and  Freemius . This week Jean is visiting his friends Dejan and Tina in Toronto, Canada. They are all attending the Collision conference that is happening in the city, so they take the opportunity to record an episode and talk about social network automation and management. Tina and Dejan are the cofounders of Social Web Suite, a WP-specific tool for social net...

The episode is sponsored by  Plesk  and  Freemius . Acquisitions have almost become the norm in the WordPress space in the past couple of years or so. Beyond WordPress, they’re also a common occurrence. Big companies often acquire smaller companies (often start-ups), while some business owners find that it’s time for them to move on to something new. In this episode, Mark had the oppor...

The episode is sponsored by  Plesk  and  Freemius . In today’s episode, we welcome Lucas Radke from Plesk to give us a tour of Plesk and all the services they provide. Plesk can be used by many different target audiences, starting from single end users of WordPress right up to big cloud services like DigitalOcean. We discuss many interesting aspects of managing WordPress servers, including s...

The episode is sponsored by  Plesk  and  Freemius . In this episode, James Laws is back and he has some catch-up time with Jean as they discuss what they’ve both been up to in recent months both on the personal side as well as the business side of things.

The episode is sponsored by  Plesk  and  Freemius . I have been following Matt Medeiros’ work for a few years through Twitter, Youtube, podcasts and so on. Recently I got in touch with Matt and purchased one of his services, User Feedback Videos , for our WP RSS Aggregator plugin. I loved his take on things and we got talking from there. Matt accepted my invite to the Mastermind. FM podcast...

The episode is sponsored by  Plesk  and  Freemius . In this episode, Jean joins Asif on the show to have an informal chat between friends. We touch on some important topics such as: the current state of WordPress and thoughts about its future, what it means to retire in your mid-thirties, the impact of travel and living abroad on our lives, how our parents’ lifestyles shaped our choices and...

The episode is sponsored by  Plesk  and  Freemius . SEO research may sound daunting to some, but there are some basic methods and tools that everyone should be using. The Ahrefs team recently got in touch with me when I published this article on WP Mayor discussing WordPress’ performance in comparison to other CMS options. That led to discussions around Ahrefs, and eventually, this episode....

The episode is sponsored by  Plesk  and  Freemius . This week I welcomed back Jean Galea to the podcast as we found some time to discuss the plugins we’re using at the moment, and why we chose them. Although Jean and I work together, we rarely find the time to have discussions such as these since we tend to focus on different projects, so this was an opportunity to see what each of us was do...

The episode is sponsored by Plesk and Freemius . In episode 103 I am joined by Markus Schwingenschlögl, CTO of ThemeFusion, the company behind the Avada WordPress theme. Markus had recently answered a Q&A for us over on WP Mayor , hosted by David Scott, Envato’s PR and Communications manager. This episode is a follow-up to that Q&A, so I recommend reading the Q&A before starting...

This episode is sponsored by Plesk and EDD Bookings . In this episode, Jean and Mark were joined by Michiel Heijmans, the COO of Yoast and an all-around great guy, to discuss conversion optimization and a lot more. Michiel is much more than just a COO of one of the most well-known WordPress plugins around. He has been a part of the Yoast team from its infancy. In the years that have passed, he has...

In this third episode with the man of many talents Kevin Muldoon, we discuss his experience with running YouTube channels and constantly creating content across several topics. We discuss what are the most common failures of prospective YouTubers as well as practical things like which hardware and software to use, as well as ways to earn money from YouTube. We also dwell on the effectiveness of th...

In our second episode with Kevin Muldoon, we discuss how he got into cryptocurrencies and his experience with mining them. He also speaks of his involvement with the SafeCoin project. We draw a lot of parallels with the WordPress world too. Definitely a great listen for anyone entrepreneurial who is also interested in cryptocurrencies. Links Kev’s Crypto Channel How to Build a Crypto mining...

In this episode Jean makes a return to Mastermind.fm to chat with one of his longtime friends in the WordPress space; Kevin Muldoon. Kevin built one of the earliest big blogs about WordPress (WPmods.com) which he later sold off on Flippa for $80k, at that time the largest sale of a blog in the WordPress niche. He then continued blogging on his site KevinMuldoon.com, before venturing into YouTube v...

A few weeks ago I was excited to receive a message from David Kelly, the General Manager at KingSumo, a sister-company of Sumo and AppSumo, all of which I encourage any business owners out there to look into. After a few discussions we set up a date and recorded this episode. David provides a ton of value to the discussion of guerrilla marketing given his experience in growing seven-figure compani...