Podcast – Expat Start-Up Guide: How to Create and Grow Your Business the Old-Fashioned Way
Viva Tropical Radio
This week we are joined by Karl Spaeth, expat business entrepreneur and Nosara Costa Rica resident.
He talks about his long road to figuring out how to support himself while living in paradise. Karl finally came up with the right formula and his business is booming. His product? Temple of White Dog ginger beer.
Join our discussion to find out how Karl went from driving deliveries of his ginger beer on his motorbike to getting approached by an American juice entrepreneur who just sold his own company to Starbucks.
In this episode, we discuss:
- How you can start a similar business.
- How Karl got the attention he needed to sell his ginger beer.
- What licenses he needed, if any.
- If you have your idea, how to get it noticed in Costa Rica.
And much more.
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The Show Notes
- Viva Tropical’s Complete Guide to Nosara, Costa Rica
- Learn more about Temple of the White Dog Ginger Beer
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One of the superior items i’ve read in the week.
Thanks Mason! Glad you enjoyed it.
I hate reading time-consuming articles, simply because i’ve got
a bit of dislexia, but i really liked this piece
Josh: I listened to your podcast on Northern Nicaragua. I really like it over there, and planning to move there in 2016. I am not looking to buy for myself, but got many friends in Hawaii and California interested in buying there. I am originally from El Salvador, and lived 8 years in the North Shore of Oahu. I had the choice of living right next to the water at Sunset Beach, but for my privacy I decided to live in the hills of Pupukea Road, with a nice ocean view of Pipeline. I have noticed a very disturbing trend in Nicaragua. So far I prefer Nicaragua to Costa Rica, way cheaper and same good quality beach breaks. I prefer Nicaragua to El Salvador because it does not have gangs. But Nicaragua is falling into a trap. There is this attitude of real estate developers to build right next to the water’s edge and to block access roads in an attempt to privatize the beach. This is going to back fire. It is going to kill the local economy around the Boom, and poor Nicaraguans are going to be forced to move to Managua or leave the country. And this is going to create gangs, just like in El Salvador where I currently live. I see tons of opportunities for developers to build whole neighborhoods away from the water’s edge, in the hills.