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Wonders of Nature: Cañon del Sumidero, Mexico

Driving past Tuxtla Gutierrez from our visit to the childrens’ home Hogar Infantil in Ocozocoautla, we passed a bridge that offered us a peek into one of the most impressive canyons in Central America: Cañon del Sumidero. A few miles east of the city you find this canyon created by the mighty Rio Grijalva which runs northwards through it. In 1981 this river was dammed with a hydro electric dam, which calmed down the river so it became[…]

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Our journey south has begun

Have you ever felt like a bird? Being able to fly off whenever you want? Not knowing where you’ll land, what you will eat, where you will sleep and who you will meet? All you can do is trust your instinct and head south. Why? Not because everybody is going there but because your gut tells you. As far as there is land, you will go south. You are not in a hurry at all.[…]

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Workshop Business Modeling at Sustentables Innovation Center

It is 9.00am on a saturday, 26th of May 2012, an hour before our workshop business modeling is scheduled to start when the doorbell rings at Sustentables innovation center. Would that be our first participant arriving so early? Slightly nervous I walk through the garden to the door and open it to indeed welcome our first guest for today. More than an hour early! Who would have thought that would happen one day in Mexico 😉[…]

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Our first time teaching an English class at Hotel Baxar

The air is damp. It is a scorching hot and cloudy day at Hotel Baxar, Pie de la Cuesta, Mexico. Droplets of sweat start dripping off my nose, both from the heat and the nerves of teaching a first class to a group of Spanish native speakers. The class is about to start in a minute or three. I peek over at Steve who is smiling to everyone entering our little teaching circle of chairs[…]

Extremes in entrepreneurship (part 2)

After our mind changing trip to Oaxaca we almost immediately started a completely different adventure: Creating a company in 72 hours on Startupbus On the day we returned to Mexico City, with our thoughts still in Oaxaca, we found out we were selected for StartupBus. WHOOOHOOOT, how cool is that??? From March 5th till March 14th we are travelling from Mexico City to the worlds leading technology conference SXSW in Austin, Texas while participating in one of the[…]

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Extremes in entrepreneurship (Part 1)

(nederlandse versie staat onderaan) Why would one write a blog about things we have experienced in March? I agree that it sounds weird. But in the last two months so many things have happened in our life as digital nomadz that blogging was just too much. My dear readers, I am sorry.. Our blog is our lifeline, we are not just writing for you but also for ourselves and our book ;). Here we create[…]

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Our first workshops at The Institute in Veracruz

The butterflies in our tummies tell us that something special is going to happen. Since November 2011 we have been preparing a series of workshops at The Institute, a language school in Veracruz, Mexico. And now we are slowly making our way through the beautiful Mexican landscape in a bus towards the biggest port of Mexico. We are going to help local entrepreneurs with two workshops: Improving your online strategy and Business Modeling in which[…]

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Stevens personal learnings from Startupbus 2012

One learns a lot during a thrilling 72-hours bus ride with forty Mexican entrepreneurs to SXSW to present our newly founded companies. This post will be about the top ten things I have learned while riding the Startupbus 2012 for you to use and hopefully learn something as well.. Here they are in random order: 1. Deadlines work: to get the most out of yourself and your team you need to define deadlines We made[…]

Startupbus?? Startup Rollercoaster

I (steven) found a couple of minutes to let you guys know how we are doing. We are in the bus and are almost at the american boarder and he first 40 hours of Startupbus are behind us. In those 40 hours we slept about 3 hours. The rest we spent working, working and eating. This project shouldn’t be called Startupbus but Startuprollercoaster. We feel tired, hungry, thirsty, energized, satisfied, engaged and very much alive![…]