ECP 011 - Eduard Jubany, young world traveler, startup founder of a multicultural apparel brand

I met Eduard a couple of years ago at my first Digital Nomad event in Barcelona. I had just learned this term "digital nomad" a few months before through a website called www.nomadlist.com.  I saw they organized events in various cities around the world, and I saw there would be one in Barcelona, so I got excited to go meet some like minded world traveling digital entrepreneurs like me, for the first time.

When I got there, I sat next to this young man, in his early twenties, who gave me a class on how to register a business in Hong Kong. He had done it years before and had already lived in several countries. I could not stop talking and learning from him. And I am still learning. Since then we’ve become friends and are always exchanging ideas on different struggles we go through. I’m sure you, too, will enjoy meeting Eduard and keeping up with what he is constantly learning and sharing.

Some time after that, he invited me to join his Coworking, where we had the most amazing view of Barcelona to work from. That’s where we recorded this talk for you.

And a few months after we recorded, he published a great article called "What I Learned Starting Lumumba And Fucking It Up". It’s a must read after you listen to this conversation we had. Hope you enjoy!

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'WE TALK ABOUT' 

05:02 How Eduard started his journey in China at 19 years old, and continued through 25 countries in Asia, Africa an America.

05:49 Why Hong Kong is the best place to incorporate, and difficulties to find an accountant that understand your situation

06:39 How he started making money at 15 selling bootlegs on bulletin boards

09:30 The power of randomness of co-working spaces and being so inexpensive to network, build community, make friends

10:44 Lumumba: Eduard's multicultural apparel startup. Strategies to build and sell via ecommerce, and challenges involving so many cultures and countries. Lumumba's business model and work ethic.

18:09 Why the Western world is a minority and is losing influence. Why it's important to speak the language of new consumers.

20:11 Eduard dreams: nomadism, having multiple productions centers, multiple offices.

23:59 How one can get involved with Lumumba project. Examples from Ghana, South Africa, India

26:22 How to get money from Venture Capitals and what is the true challenge.

37:22 Eduard's tipos for who wants to leave the 9-to-5, move from corporate job to a nomad lifestyle today.

43:09 performance tools and lifestyle.

46:17 Eduard's definition of startup based on the method. "You don't assume anything until you go to market" vs Traditional methodology.

'QUOTES' 

"I had investments in the stock market in Spain when I was 15 and when the crash came in 2008 I lost half of my savings. That was my motivation to travel" 07:48

"A startup must to be part of your lifestyle. If it doesn't fit, it doesn't make any sense [to start one]" 33:44

'RESOURCES' 

nomadlist.com

Bulletin boards - the Web 1.0
Cloud CoWorking
Lumumba
Founder Institute
Google Drive
Lean Startup
Zero to One
Steve Blank

What I Learned Starting Lumumba And Fucking It Up