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...

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...

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...

Our Little Secret: Nosara, Costa Rica

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Our Little Secret: Nosara, Costa Rica.  Nosara isn’t the easiest place to get to. There’s a long, bumpy dirt road to get there. In the rainy season, this road becomes pretty much impassable; you have to take an alternate route,...

The Doctor Is In – Heat Emergencies

The Doctor Is In – Heat Emergencies

The Doctor Is In - Heat Emergencies.  You are on the beach or doing a big hike and all of a sudden you feel clammy and the world seems to be closing in on you. What could be happening? You are probably experiencing some type of heat emergency. Heat emergencies can...

Soda El Coco: A Story of One Soda

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Soda El Coco: A Story of One Soda.  With a family business plan that was decidedly small to start with but sure to succeed through steadfast commitment, Soda El Coco and the Cruz family has been satisfying appetites in Brasilito...