Ask HN: Internship, a villa in Costa Rica, All paid for a month of startup work
I just launched http://www.trimpics.com and getting good traction, I am thinking of doing an internship for digital nomads, they will apply by sending a video telling about themselves and I will pick 2-3 people that I think might be a good fit.
The idea is to rent a villa down in Costa Rica with all expenses included (including the flights), and bring 2-3 people for a month of growth hacking / content marketing and motivate each other to grow the business, at the end of the month if the interns are a good fit then offer them a monthly wage to continue working on my startup from wherever they want in the world.
Ideas? Would you join?
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Bad idea.
Bad - because you've provided no structured info about CR(Costa Rica).
Have you researched the place yourself? No point pitching up to live in Villa le Paradise but there is no ADSL/Fibre to run your business.
Go the other way around, let your interns hustle remotely.
Being able to work remotely (as "digital nomads") means they should first show they are capable of such a thing.
Make Costa Rica the onboarding-phase for fulltime hires (basically, a team-building exercise).
Note, my suggestions merely add to your strategy. I still don't quite get what you are attempting by doing this, and would on a broader-scale, suggest you don't.
I attempt to find good and interesting people to work with that can complement what I don't have, publicity to my startup if I make it awesome and market it as an innovative idea (work fom a villa for a month all paid, etc etc)
Once you've spent the major expense of bringing someone over, what prevents this person from taking his/her work very lightly and simply enjoying him/herself on a 1-month holiday?
Even if you kick this person out, they'll pick up some boarding/lodging, but still managed to score a free (expensive) flight ticket.
So whats the pull with this? Maybe I'm misunderstanding something.
thnx