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Welcoming back James, the hosts get back to square one and catch up on both work and personal life, while sharing recent Pressnomics and business takeaways.

Topics Include:

• James shares his 5 Year Pressnomics veteran experience.
  • Takeaways from this year’s conference.
  • The magic of the hallway track & after-party discussions.
• Switching things up: personal goal updates!
  • Jean keys us in on his progress toward being a professional Padel player.
  • James’s fitness check in.
  • A brief on diet and hobbies.
• Cautionary tales:
  • When to-do lists do more harm than good.
  • Limiting digital shopping can open up a surprising amount of free time.
  • Sleep vs actual rest.
    • Metrics for maximizing your time in dream land.
  • The benefits of routine and meditation.
  • Take advantage of your biological clock’s prime [functional] time.

Mentioned on the Show:

• Sleep by Nick Littlehales
• Eat That Frog! by Brian Tracy

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In this episode we cover building a side-business online, making the full-time leap to the Shopify App ecosystem, and how it’s changed over the past 6 years.

Topics Include:

• Starting in IT and account management.
• Learning to code and design.
  • Choosing a language and path.
  • Finding an outsourcing partner.
• Growing to a full-time business.
• The cost of living in Copenhagen.
• Multifaceted analysis of revenue numbers.
• One time fees versus renewals.
• The joys of a lifestyle business.
• The ins and outs of the Shopify ecosystem.
• The Shopify community.
• The state of the tech scene in Copenhagen.
• Reducing support.
• How to outsource to India successfully.
• Audience questions for Bjorn.

Mentioned on the Show:

• Bjorn’s hompage: www.forsbergplustwo.com
• Bjorn’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/FORSBERGtwo
• His partner in India: https://idyllic.co/
• Shopify Partner Program: https://www.shopify.com/partners
• Open Source Metrics app on Github: https://github.com/forsbergplustwo/partner-metrics-for-shopify
• Tyler Tringas’ book on building small SaaS businesses: https://tylertringas.com/micro-saas-ebook/

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This week Jean is joined by Bryce Adams, founder of Metorik. They talk personal travels, a little WordPress history, and why SAS is the future.

Topics Include:

• Bryce’s Journey
  • From Woothemes to Woocommerce.
  • Automattic’s Woo acquisition.
  • Digital Nomadism and Bryce’s favorite places.
    • Much travel, little work.
• WordPress in Japan.
• Why the SAS model?
  • The limitations of the plugin/product business model.
  • “Will doing this help my customers succeed?”
• How Metorik came about.
  • Weighing whether to stay with Woo or chase an alternative.
• Advice for those seeking validation to pursue their own side projects.
• Building your product or service to sustainability.
• Launching a bigger company off of a platform.
• Let your customer lifetime value be your guide.
• Adopting live chat support.
• “The future of WordPress is not in a ZIP file.”
• The technology behind building a SAS.

Mentioned on the Show:

• Metorik
• Bryce’s Twitter
• Calculating…Average Revenue per User
• What is Success for Metorik?
• Underestimating the Unknown

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This episode we are down one Jean, but James brings a Kevin Stover and Zach Skaggs into the mix, to talk hiring and why anyone would consider leaving a stable job for that of bootstrap offerings.

Topics Include:

• WP Ninjas history in hiring.
• The perspective of one who would trade mega-company stability for startup culture.
  • Lifestyle over pay rate.
• Letting growth influence your hiring.
• Hiring for attitude and aptitude.
  • Do they get it, do they want it, do they have the capacity to do it?
• Good onboarding is important.
• Don’t over engineer.

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This episode Mastermind.FM has a complete international developer panel, ranging from Canada, Spain, United States and Malta.

There are some many good talking point ‘deep dives’, that show notes just won’t do it justice. So, sit down as with this weeks crew as Mastermind.FM embodies its namesake.

Topics Include:

• All things WordPress.
• Through the eyes of developers.
  • Views on development and WordPress.
  • Frustrations and Challenges
  • Defining Standards
  • Rewriting in core.
• Looking forward.