Posts in Entrepreneurship
Have we reached peak ‘entrepreneur’?
Have we reached peak ‘entrepreneur’?

Being an entrepreneur is arguably the highest status job in the world at the moment. In the 1960s, it was the rock star. In the 1980s-1990s, investment bankers were the ‘masters of the universe’, the object of cultural fascination (and loathing), depicted in books like Bonfire of the Vanities or American Psycho. Now? No one could give a crap about investment bankers — they’re souped-up traders who bet with other people’s money and the only thing they invent are bullshit derivatives. But the entrepreneur? The ‘founder’? All kneel before their genius.

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Entrepreneurship, Tech, Culture, Business, StartupJules EvansEntrepreneurship, Tech, Startup, BusinessComment
Are Digital Nomads harming our host countries?
Are Digital Nomads harming our host countries?

At the moment I live in a town in Costa Rica called La Fortuna. There was nothing much here apart from farming until the 1980s, when the nearby volcano of Arenal erupted, and it kept on erupting for the next 20 years. Suddenly all the springs and rivers around Arenal warmed up and became thermal baths. There was a thermal bath boom, a spa-rush, as hotels and spas scrambled to grab access to the springs and sell it to tourists. Today, La Fortuna is one of the most popular towns in one of the most popular tourist destinations in the world. Everything is booming, until the volcano erupts again.

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Digital Nomads, Nomad, Digital Nomad Lifestyle, Travel, EntrepreneurshipJules EvansComment