3- Sam Marks, Digital Entrepreneur on scalable start-ups, building a $100M business the nomadic way.

Sam Marks, digital entrepreneur concentrating on scalable, high-growth start-ups. Building a $100m business the nomadic way

In 2009 he founded SKYCIG in the UK. While maintaining a nomadic lifestyle, he was able to scale the business, which became Europe’s largest e-cigarette company and was acquired for $100m in 2013. He currently is based in Chiang Mai, Thailand and continues to work full time in the start-up scene both as an operator and investor.

Sam will share key lessons and strategic insight on scaling and principles that can be applied to your business.

Travels constantly, typically 30+ countries a year investigating opportunities and getting a better understanding of the global marketplace.

Has developed business ops. and strategic partnerships spanning 4 continents

He views business as the ultimate sport… well, second only to ping pong.

We talk about:

- how he started from zero, built his online skills, and with affiliate marketing sold one of his start ups for 100 million $$

- why he decided to start www.coworker.com,

- the growing coworking scene around the globe,

- what his dream coworking space would look like,

- his tips for those who are starting a career and want to go digital, be location independent

- how he reshaped his life when he was 18 and put his mind on a business track

- his perception of China

- his future plans

quotes:

"if you can build a lifestyle business that supports some type of work lifestyle and ability to be remote I think for most people that's, pretty much achieving the work dream"

"the return on your time is probably better spent learning how to market something online"

"build a simple website, put an affiliate offer on there and buy some traffic and see what happens"

"I think the smartest thing to always do, when you’re getting started, is to have a reliable source of income and then work, don't go home and watch TV or play around go home and learn how to do something on the internet and don't quit your job until you're confident that what you're doing can replace your revenue stream if not fully at least partially"