Episode 365: TMBA365: Estonian E-Residency: Is It For You?
Tropical MBA: Entrepreneurship & Founder Lifestyle
Dan Andrews; Ian Schoen
4.9 • 527 Ratings
🗓️ 1 December 2016
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
http://www.tropicalmba.com/estonia/ On today's show, Dan and Ian are taking a look at one specific country. Estonia is a nation that, until this point, our hosts had very little knowledge of.
They are a country that has started behaving like a startup, and has even started offering services specifically designed for location-independent entrepreneurs. In particular, they have developed a solution for our travel woes in the form of something called an "E-Residency".
On this episode, you will hear from Estonian E-Resident, Joel Runyon. Joel is the man behind the fitness and mindset blog, The Blog of Impossible Things. You'll also hear from Estonia's Chief Information Officer, Taavi Kotka. The two of them will share their insights on how E-Residency could pave the path to the future of how nations, citizens, and digital nomads interact.
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| 0:00.0 | It's not competing. It's like fishing. I mean, there are like fishermen in every country, |
| 0:05.0 | and it's still enough fish in the sea. |
| 0:07.1 | E-residency or digital citizenship is the thing to stay because the work gets more and more |
| 0:11.9 | global and it's more and more stuff you can do digitally. So we were just the first ones, |
| 0:17.1 | but there will be others. |
| 0:21.3 | Hey, podcast, listener. |
| 0:22.8 | Even if you are alone in your entrepreneurial journey, know that today, right now, |
| 0:26.6 | in your earbuds, you are joined by thousands of entrepreneurs from all around the |
| 0:30.6 | globe seeking to grow better, more profitable, location independent businesses. |
| 0:35.5 | If you'd like to learn more about what we do and download our entire back catalog, |
| 0:40.6 | check out tropical MBA.com. |
| 0:49.4 | In today's show, we're going to take a peek at a country, |
| 0:53.0 | and it's one that that I'm not going to |
| 0:54.8 | lie until recently I had almost no knowledge of. |
| 0:58.4 | So thanks to Wikipedia for putting it right. |
| 1:01.3 | The country's name is Estonia. |
| 1:03.6 | It's a small country in northern Europe that sits south of Finland, across the Baltic Sea |
| 1:07.6 | from Sweden, just north of Latvia and just west of Russia. |
| 1:12.4 | Its estimated population is 1.3 million. Now, why are we talking about Estonia? Well, it's a |
| 1:20.8 | country that started to treat itself like a startup. Yeah, they even have a chief information |
| 1:25.7 | officer. I'm going to talk to them today. |
| 1:28.1 | They are creating services specifically for entrepreneurs. Could you call it Cass country as a service? |
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