Pajama Entrepreneur

This is an amazing story of how three bloggers in Spain managed to create the most popular pro basketball site (Hoopshype) in the US. Never mind that one of them doesn’t even like the sport or that they’ve been blogging (and continue to blog) out of Madrid. Fantasy Sports Ventures bought Hoopshype from the founder, Jorge Sierra, for an amount in the low seven figures, according to the Wall Street Journal, and continues to blog with his colleagues.

I have also been running Muniwireless for several years out of Amsterdam and am often asked how I managed to become the authority on the US municipal wireless market. My answer: anyone can blog from anywhere and become an expert, if he or she is interested, writes well, has passion and . . . a good broadband connection. I can do my work from anywhere in the world as long as I have broadband. Indeed, if you make good money from ads on your site, why not live in a place that has good broadband but a lower cost of living? Why not Buenos Aires or Bangkok?

From an article in the Guardian [Wave goodbye to the nine to five, and say hello to virtual enterprise]: A report on the nature of employment in 2018 predicts an exodus from the traditional workplace caused partly by environmental pressure to reduce the carbon footprint of commuting and partly by the demographic pressure of an ageing population, with fewer employees able to avoid looking after older relatives, leading to a blurring of boundaries between family and career.

Famous Dutch designer Marcel Wanders has been hired to do the interiors of a new creative class hangout in Amsterdam, which will be in the former public library on the Prinsengracht. The building will house a cafe, ateliers, work spaces, museum and design hotel.

In the past few years, the city has realized that there’s a need for more ateliers and work spaces for the growing number of entrepreneurs who work in technology, advertising, media, etc. And of course, their counterparts abroad need a cool place to stay when they are in town.

Let’s hope the library has a superfast connection to the Internet (gigabit, anyone?). I know the new public library, which is a magnificent space, has very fast connections.

Anyway, this is a great addition to the city.

I decided to revive this blog and start posting again on all things related to tech, entrepreneurship, business models and the perfect office. Late December I mentioned that I would be posting exclusively on my personal blog, Rose Cantine. But some people complained and demanded that I not mix my obsession with good food with gadgets.

So I am back posting on Pajama Entrepreneur.

This is my last post on Pajama Entrepreneur. I have moved all of the posts on this blog to Rose Cantine, my other personal blog. I will be blogging there from now on.

Why? I’m tired of maintaining two Wordpress blogs. Every time Wordpress updates their software, I have to update two blogs, including the plugins. I don’t have time for this anymore.

So, all of my tech and business related posts, which I used to host here on PJ Entrepreneur, will now be on Rose Cantine.

See you there!