[phantom_oracle]

Nice website.

Bad idea.

Bad - because you've provided no structured info about CR(Costa Rica).

Have you researched the place yourself? No point pitching up to live in Villa le Paradise but there is no ADSL/Fibre to run your business.

Go the other way around, let your interns hustle remotely.

Being able to work remotely (as "digital nomads") means they should first show they are capable of such a thing.

Make Costa Rica the onboarding-phase for fulltime hires (basically, a team-building exercise).

Note, my suggestions merely add to your strategy. I still don't quite get what you are attempting by doing this, and would on a broader-scale, suggest you don't.

[hodaraadam]

Im a digital nomad and live here in Costa Rica , did research on the place... To make Costa Rica the on boarding phase it is exactly what I want to do.

I attempt to find good and interesting people to work with that can complement what I don't have, publicity to my startup if I make it awesome and market it as an innovative idea (work fom a villa for a month all paid, etc etc)

[phantom_oracle]

The biggest problem (I felt) was the rent-seeking nature of people.

Once you've spent the major expense of bringing someone over, what prevents this person from taking his/her work very lightly and simply enjoying him/herself on a 1-month holiday?

Even if you kick this person out, they'll pick up some boarding/lodging, but still managed to score a free (expensive) flight ticket.

[hodaraadam]

The idea is to do due diligence and find someoen that is really interested in startups/work/succeed and has some kind of proof record whether is his own blog, a very active twitter account , etc....also the main benefit is not the 1 month in Costa Rica but that after that you get to work from anywhere in the world if you are good...