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Continue reading →: 2:51 pm, Warsaw Airport: The Smile Disappeared from Her Face
I was flying to London to ask bankers for money. Instead, a border guard made a phone call, and I was led away in handcuffs on an Interpol Red Notice from Nigeria.
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Continue reading →: You Don’t Own Your Invoices: Entrepreneurship Under Permission in the Dominican Republic
In the Dominican Republic, opening a company doesn’t mean you can invoice freely. The tax authority decides how many invoices you may issue. That is a quiet but real tax on freedom.
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Continue reading →: Find Your Racetrack: Why a Passion Outside Business Made Me Better at ItI never really had hobbies. Racing taught me that a passion outside business is not a distraction from it. Founders have a well-documented burnout problem, and this is one practical answer.
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Continue reading →: Building While Being Framed as the ProblemI agree with the critics on the problems. The disagreement is about what to do next. A decade in frontier markets, and what evidence says about community land trusts.
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Continue reading →: A Milestone for Nomad City: Infrastructure and Housing Execution PartnershipSamana Group has signed a strategic execution partnership for the infrastructure and housing of Nomad City. Why execution risk, not land, is what decides whether a development ever gets built.
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Continue reading →: The Caribbean Burns Fuel It Doesn’t Own. Here Is the Way Out.Nine percent of Caribbean electricity is renewable. The world average is 32%. The islands that fixed it did three boring things, and the data shows exactly which.
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Continue reading →: Paradise Should Not Be CheapLiving by the beach in the Caribbean is a privilege, not a coupon. If you want it, earn it, contribute to it, and stop treating a poorer country as a discount.
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Continue reading →: We Didn’t IPO. We Did Something Cooler First.After 15 months of work and audits across three countries, Samaná Landbank Trust became the first Caribbean real estate fund accepted into European financial market infrastructure. What that means in plain English, and why it matters.
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Continue reading →: How Can You Own Land If the Title Doesn’t Show Exactly Where It Is?In the Dominican Republic, ownership historically came before geometry. What that means for buyers, what the due diligence should look like, and why the invisible work is where value is created.
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Continue reading →: Cruise Giants Are Buying Islands. Will Samaná Be Next?A new cruise terminal is opening in Samaná Bay. The numbers on spending, whales and the industry’s environmental record deserve a closer look before the ribbon is cut.
Hello,
I’m Marek
Founder & CEO of Samana Group. Author of “Chasing Black Unicorns”. Born in Poland. Built in Nigeria, South Africa and the Dominican Republic. Co-founder of Jumia Travel and SunRoof International. Racing driver.
