Why entrepreneurship matters for your travels
You may know this already, but all the way back in 2003 I used to run a blog called TJ's Weblog, which focused on entrepreneurship and venture capital. The domain has since been taken over over by a spammer (I let it lapse) and my content has gone, but archive.org has all the content from the past.
Part of what I focused on with this site was the shape of entrepreneurship in different countries and how it shaped their economies in the past. As you may have noticed, there are countries that even have creaking infrastructure, yet travel still feels easy and they are a joy to discover. In our Things to do Guides, you'll see tons of options of where to eat and many distractions for you in some of these destinations.
Generally, it is more fun to travel in a country that has:
- a service culture
- curious people (an entrepreneur should always listen to new ideas to enhance their own business)
- a better level of English (no entrepreneur can succeed without English)
- affordability through competition (because of the sheer amount of competing entrepreneurs)
- GEDI (The Global Entrepreneurship and Development Institute)
- GEM (The Global Entrepreneurship Monitor)

- A commodities boom (this usually leads to a Dutch disease, due to the inflated domestic currency)
- Small cliques of insiders who discourage newcomers with better/cheaper products
- Bureaucracy