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A comment on Ask HN: Internship, a villa in Costa Rica, All paid for a month of startup work. Parent comment

Re:Ask HN: Internship, a villa in Costa Rica, All paid for a... by hodaraadam on Monday January 26, 2015 @10:32PM (#8951109)
Im a digital nomad and live here in Costa Rica , did research on the place... To make Costa Rica the on boarding phase it is exactly what I want to do.

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)

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Re:Ask HN: Internship, a villa in Costa Rica, All paid for a... by phantom_oracle on Tuesday January 27, 2015 @07:36AM (#8952713)
The biggest problem (I felt) was the rent-seeking nature of people.

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.

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Re:Ask HN: Internship, a villa in Costa Rica, All paid for a... by hodaraadam on Tuesday January 27, 2015 @01:03PM (#8954592)
The idea is to do due diligence and find someoen that is really interested in startups/work/succeed and has some kind of proof record whether is his own blog, a very active twitter account , etc....also the main benefit is not the 1 month in Costa Rica but that after that you get to work from anywhere in the world if you are good...
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