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Where has Marc Mulvaney built businesses?
Marc Mulvaney has registered and run businesses in 8 countries: the UK, Germany, Austria, Italy, Panama, the USA (Nevada and Florida), Canada and Spain. He was born in Oxford in 1973 and grew up across Europe and in Huntington Beach, California.
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Oxford to Huntington Beach
1973 to the 1990s
- 1973
Born in Oxford, England. Grew up across Europe while his parents flipped houses.
- Age 10
Sold bedsheets on a market stall, calling out to passers-by. At 15 he sold skate gear out of a sports bag.
- Teens
Huntington Beach, California: skateboarding, surfing every day, BMX and graffiti. Finished school in England.
- Then
Spent a year on the Greek island of Crete before settling in Germany.
Deggendorf, Bavaria
1991 to 2009
- 1991
Opened his first bar at 18, in La Manga del Mar, Spain, then two bars in Bavaria and a nightclub by 21. Designed his own club flyers and invented a cocktail so popular in Germany that people organised parties around it.
- 1997
First digital company, SK Max, with three partners until 1999: one-hour VHS tapes for more than 500 large German nightclubs, with 3D animations of each club's logo, photos of its guests, cocktails of the week and paid adverts, played on loop.
- 1999
Co-founded Toro Design with Robert Muckenthaler and Thomas Moosmüller and stayed a partner until 2002: flyers for hundreds of clubs and for Sony-signed artists. The name takes TO from Thomas and RO from Robert; toro, Spanish for bull, became the logo Marc designed.
- 1999
flyerboerse.de, a “flyer stock market” where the print price fell as more orders came in. SMS Creator, software that let clubs text their guests, built with the sister company CETIX Media.
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Won a Golden Web Award from the International Association of Web Masters and Designers, for a website he built for BMW in Germany.
- 2001
Co-founded VMP Marketing, a marketing company in Deggendorf (the M stands for Mulvaney), and built its discount designer clothing shop, fashionhall.de. Both ran until at least 2004.
- 2002
Founded formflow.de and ran it until 2009: 3D for architects, SEO, hand-coded web design and e-commerce. Hundreds of client sites ranked in Google's top five.
Lower Bavaria
2008 to 2011
- 2008
Ran Frooties, a chocolate business inside Pullman City, a Western theme park in Bavaria, until 2009.
- 2009
Co-founded GoodmanTees with two partners in Fürstenzell, near Passau, and ran it as CEO until 2011: custom T-shirts designed, printed and shipped from several websites in Germany and Austria, 300 to 500 a day.
Online
2009 to 2012
- 2009
Started buying, building, ranking and selling websites on Flippa, the marketplace for buying and selling websites, in its first year, and went on to flip hundreds of them.
- 2011
Started flippamate.com, a blog on buying, building and flipping websites, written as Marc Ashley. Renamed it flippmate.com in 2012 after Flippa asked him to change the name.
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Lived in Austria and registered Mad Cherry Designs, a design company.
Lake Garda, Italy
2010s
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Set up Rocca Media Ventures in Garda for SEO and web builds. Met his wife, Silvia.
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Boosterking.co.uk and other mobile signal booster shops.
- 2014
Co-founded Greenvapes.co.uk and ran it as CEO until 2016, alongside five or six sister shops under other names. Greenvapes became the UK's number two vaporizer shop on Trustpilot and was sold to a Canadian-listed group, where Marc ran web design, SEO and paid search across 26 European countries.
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Two years off to study SEO and travel.
Panama
From 2015
- 2015
Moved to Panama and formed Formflow Inc. for SEO and digital media.
Las Vegas, Nevada
2017 to 2025
- 2017
Founded FuelOrganics, a supplement brand sold online.
- 2018
Co-founded Leone Americana, a vegan lifestyle company, and ran its brand marketing until 2020.
- 2019
CEO and director of PeakBirch Commerce, an e-commerce company listed on the Canadian Securities Exchange (PKB), until June 2022. Took its online shops from $0 to $3.5 million a year within one year, with organic SEO only.
- 2022
Started building AI products. Founded LocalLeads247, a lead generation and marketing company for local businesses, and RankTracker247, an SEO rank-tracking tool.
Mallorca and Panama
2025 to now
- 2025
Moved to Port de Pollença, Mallorca, in September, splitting his time with Panama.
- Now
Launched FreeWebsite247. Building apps for the App Store, writing a book on SEO and AEO, and investing as an angel investor in digital companies.
