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Innovation and Creativity:  Keys to Successful Investing

Innovation and Creativity: Keys to Successful Investing

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Investment Chat with Nativu - Innovation and Creativity: Keys to Successful Investing.  Innovation and creativity — these are probably the two best qualities you can have as an early-stage investor. Why? Because you will probably...

Entrepreneur Costa Rica: Big Brand or Small Boutique?

Entrepreneur Costa Rica: Big Brand or Small Boutique?

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Entrepreneur Costa Rica: Big Brand or Small Boutique?  I've been trying so hard in my local fashion business to survive against big brands. It helps to remind myself of the answer to this question: what makes a small boutique...

El Mercado Central de San José: The Heart of the City

El Mercado Central de San José: The Heart of the City

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] El Mercado Central de San José: The Heart of the City.  There is nothing that touches the pulse of a Latin American community like its markets. That’s where you can feel an energy unlike any other. The Central Market of San José is...

Children’s Museum of Costa Rica – Our History From the Darkness

Children’s Museum of Costa Rica – Our History From the Darkness

[vc_row][vc_column width="2/3"][vc_column_text]The idea of a national children’s museum was born in the heart of Gloria Bejarano Almada, first lady of Costa Rica during the administration of Calderón Fournier (1990-1994). Visiting the children’s museum in Venezuela...

Mussurana: More Friend Than Foe, Except to Other Snakes

Mussurana: More Friend Than Foe, Except to Other Snakes

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] The mussurana (clelia clelia) is a medium-sized snake species in the colubrid genus. It is found primarily in a geographic region that includes Costa Rica, extending from Guatemala south to Brazil. Most Ticos know the snake by the...

Santa Teresa Time – Just While Away Your Day

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Santa Teresa Time - Just While Away Your Day.  On the Nicoya Peninsula’s southwest coast sits the idyllic village of Santa Teresa. A haven for surfers, hippies and tourists, not to mention Tom Brady and Gisele Bündchen, this dusty...

On the Road to Shambhala – Providencia and San Geraldo de Dota

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] On the Road to Shambhala - Providencia and San Geraldo de Dota. Park coming as close as it gets in Costa Rica to the fabled Shangri-La (Los Quetzales National Park related article), the bordering valley villages of Providencia and...

Lingerie: Uncovering How to Feel Good  About Yourself

Lingerie: Uncovering How to Feel Good About Yourself

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Lingerie: Uncovering How to Feel Good About Yourself.  Few would argue with Jenna Leight, a famous lingerie designer, about the importance of her fashion specialty area: “Lingerie is the first thing you put on and the last thing you...

MINAE: Why? A Good-to-Know Overview

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] For some governments in the world, environmental protection remains just a lofty ideology, while others have made it an institutionalized obligation. In Costa Rica, it’s a human right. This country’s sustainable development vision...

Costa Rican Vultures:  Hey … Somebody Has to Take Out the Garbage!

Costa Rican Vultures: Hey … Somebody Has to Take Out the Garbage!

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Dirty, gross, awful… a few words commonly associated with vultures, but in reality anything but the truth. Vultures are an essential part of the ecosystem. They provide a vital service by cleaning up what would otherwise become a...