If you’re wanting to start your own business, you don’t have to be holed up at home, alone, watching reruns of How I Met Your Mother on catch up. If you’re about to start your start-up, the chances are you have saved a bit of money to live off for a small while. So why stay home when you don’t have to?

Pieter Levels explains why very clearly. When he stopped studying and continued with his online work, he got bored. His friends were working in offices all day building their careers and Levels wanted more from everyday life.

Levels, who had studied abroad in Korea, says he came to realize there was no particular reason why he had to operate his music business from the Netherlands. “I flew to Bangkok and, yeah, I just continued to do my music channel for a year.

This realisation enabled Levels to start his new idea, called Nomad List: “A series of web services geared to helping “digital nomads” like him. Digital nomads are people who launch startups or do remote freelance work while seeing the world, in places like Southeast Asia, Eastern Europe, or Latin America, where they can pay less to live better than they could at home”. You can read more about it HERE – it’s a rad idea.

I agree with Pieter – see the world whilst you work if you can. You don’t have to be fighting for desk space with your cat that insists on sitting on your keyboard. Cape Town has it sorted for you – The Bureaux in The Woodstock Exchange is the office space you have been dreaming of. So, if you’re sitting in freezing cold Europe at the minute and can pack your bags and get to your local airport by this evening, do it. Cape Town is currently sitting in the top ten of cities in the world to visit so you have absolutely no excuse.

[Source: Fast Company]