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by hongloumeng 3532 days ago
"Digital Nomad" is not the keyword you are looking for. The Digital Nomad narrative targets individuals who are trying to escape the prototypical rat race, so most of the focus is on what can be done with a small set of technical skills, like setting up a Wordpress website and building landing pages, email marketing, sourcing from Alibaba, building web courses, Amazon stores, Shopify and Teespring, etc. You sound like you are interested in small tech startup teams that are location independent. Try Rob Walling's podcast Startups for the Rest of Us. And, for a more general and non-technical but still informative view, try TropicalMBA.com. If you are more interested in joining a traditional startups that lets you remote work, try remotebase.io/companies
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I see digital nomadism as more as a freelancer / consultant, typically non technical though this isn't a rule, who may or may not have an addiction to traveling.

There are terms like lifestyle entrepreneur, location independent entrepreneur or micro multi-national but these are just words. Any one of them can be the founder of a tech startup or private label consumer products, manufactured in china and sell them through a combination of Amazon FBA and digital marketing. In some cases, they do both.

> You sound like you are interested in small tech startup teams that are location independent

Thanks, this is exactly right. I will check out the links you suggested.

Digital Nomad is a bit of a misnomer anyway. Nomad implies continuous travel whilst most people just stay in one place.