It’s a fair question and one which is keeping us stunned for a moment. As I already mentioned, I have recently been engaged in a business development project, in which I, along with two others, have been developing a business case for a project in the wine-industry. The advantage is that a business plan is more or less* ready (*: I’ll write a future post on how I think such projects can be improved), and that there will be a certain base-salary. The disadvantage is that, unlike most salaried positions, I know, it will be extremely hard work and you will, apart from some physical labour, be responsible for building a market (which can be fun, but requires a certain determination). And… a big and, you have to be living in the Netherlands.

Following is the text of the advert, which we have placed on a wine-university-site:

So far we haven’t received an enthusiastic response, which leads me to believe that we have to use different platforms for our search. I put it here, even though I know that most of you aren’t in the target-audience—i.e. living in the Netherlands—and the work is also fairly low-tech: it’s a p2p—people to people—business.

But one of you maybe has some experience in this. Where would you suggest that we look for entrepreneurial folk? I’ll take the person that offers the best response out for a drink, next time they’re in Amsterdam or I”m in Paris!

Vincent

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