On this episode, we spoke to a friend and long-time Ramen Club member, Julian Canlas, the co-founder of Embarque.io. Embarque is an on-demand content marketing productised service. Started 3 years ago, it’s now making $700k+ ARR, having worked with clients like VEED, Riverside FM and Buy Me A Coffee to name just a few. We discussed the future of SE…

We spoke to Jack Ellis, Jack is the co-founder of Fathom Analytics, along with Paul Jarvis, and host of the Above Board podcast. Fathom is a privacy-focused web analytics SaaS and excellent Google Analytics alternative. I use Fathom personally on about 5 different websites and can confirm that it’s far easier to navigate and use, in addition to bei…

We spoke to Dominic Monn, a longtime Ramen Club member, about bootstrapping MentorCruise - the go-to marketplace to find a career coach or mentor. They help career professionals turn their knowledge into a marketable coaching business, and also make it possible for mentees to find a perfect mentor with just a few clicks. Covering all sorts of topic…

In this episode, Ramen Club founder, Charlie Ward, has a conversation with long time member, Valentin Wallyn. His main product, FindyMail, is now at $20k MRR. It's a high quality email finder tool with an automation layer. Designed to help B2B salespeople build lead lists faster for cold outreach. It lets you scrape Sales Navigator, Apollo and much…

Marketing careers come in many shapes, and among its very top niche is SEO. That's really no wonder because Google gets 8.5 billion surge queries every single day. That's 100,000 queries per second! Placing your site or your business at the top of one of those queries is valuable for any business out there. So it's no surprise that SEO specialists …

In this episode, Ramen Club founder, Charlie Ward, has a conversation with long time member, Andy Cloke. They discuss Andy’s unconventional journey to becoming a software engineer, how he discovered indie hacking and how he’s grown not one, but two, successful bootstrapped projects. His current product, Data Fetcher, is a tool that allows you to br…

We interviewed Richa Prasad, Co-Founder of Coach Viva, on growing her weight loss business large enough to make a living from it, using YouTube as an effective growth channel (3.2m+ views) and much more. The Ramen Club Podcast brings you in-depth conversations with bootstrapped entrepreneurs building profitable internet businesses. Including both m…

Today we have Julien Leforestier of Spotify as a guest with us. If you're thinking about any of your favorite products out there in the world, there's probably a person like Julien behind them. A product is nothing without its users, and so it's easy to understand just how important the role of a user researcher is. The role of UX researcher or use…

One thing I love about careers in tech and maybe specifically software engineering is that it's one of the rare career paths where self-teaching is a genuine way to build a valuable career on the back of grit and determination. It is now estimated that about 70% of software engineers in the industry have a full or partially self-taught background, …

Once again, marketing remains one of the most popular fields of study in the US. The growth of marketing positions in the industry is pretty stable. And while the growth of the position isn't exactly extraordinary, graduates from marketing degrees are among the ones with the lowest unemployment in their fields. While advertising and commercial agen…

Talk to Stephen 👉 https://mentorcruise.com/mentor/StephenGroat/ --- There's no doubt about it: Tech workers are in demand. Be it software engineers, product designers, or managers, many see these growing career paths as a way to get ahead in their professional lives – and rightfully so. However, one type of tech worker doesn't quite get the same sp…

We interviewed Che Sampat, Founder of SuperPay & SuperPortal ($15m GMV). The Ramen Club Podcast brings you in-depth conversations with bootstrapped entrepreneurs building profitable internet businesses. Including both members and friends of the Ramen Club community. Ramen Club is building the community, content and tools supporting founders to rame…

We interviewed Amar Ghose, co-founder of ZenMaid, on growing his maid service SaaS to $1.8m ARR. The Ramen Club Podcast brings you in-depth conversations with bootstrapped entrepreneurs building profitable internet businesses. Including both members and friends of the Ramen Club community. Ramen Club is building the community, content and tools sup…

We spoke to Ramen Club member Matthew Callery on growing CV Engineer, his iOS/Android native resume building app to 500k downloads and 90k Daily Active Users. The Ramen Club Podcast brings you in-depth conversations with bootstrapped entrepreneurs building profitable internet businesses. Including both members and friends of the Ramen Club communit…

Talk to Lloyd 👉 https://mentorcruise.com/mentor/LloydJacob/ If you're like the majority of adults and people online right now, you want to build your own business someday. In fact, over 60% of people in their twenties and thirties have this life goal. In reality, a much smaller amount of people actually end up doing it and then even less of those p…

Talk to our guest Rebecca here 👉 https://mentorcruise.com/mentor/RebeccaLiu/ Design is one of the most popular majors in the world. Yet it is estimated that only 20 to 25% of the graduates ever make their way into the industry. It's a competitive field with many competitors around and comparably not many well paid positions. Today, we're talking ab…

Let's start this one off with a quiz right away. If I ask you right now, what does a product manager do all day? Would you be able to give me a concrete answer? if you can, that's great and you'll be sure to learn more about it today, but if you can't – you're not alone. The search term around what a product manager does all day actually gets up to…

In this episode, we're talking about the topic of personal branding, certainly a topic that's not uncontroversial. Maybe you remember something from our very first episode when our guest said the infamous quote: > Personal Branding is a bit of a cringe term And I think it comes down to one side of the spectrum being very against it, staying authent…

In this episode we are going to talk about the transition to go from a hands-on individual contributor to a manager position. As an engineer, or maybe even in tech, in general, the career path of people is very predefined: You start at a junior-like position, you go on to become a mid-engineer or a mid-designer. You stay there for a while until you…

Based on a survey by TechRepublic - 75% of us feel like we are stuck in our careers. Half of that is because we feel like the companies that we are at or the place that we work at do not provide the growth opportunities that we are looking for and the other half is actually that we are feeling too overwhelmed and that too stressed to make use of th…

Big tech is as booming as ever. And it doesn't look like it's slowing down anytime soon. Even during the COVID pandemic, the FAANG companies have grown their revenue by 50%. And even while every other business was shutting down, they were hiring fast. It's a very popular place to be. After all, you get to work with some of the smartest people in th…