Peter Jones

Start-up culture in Ancient Greece

Honduras is trying a new idea that worked very well 2,500 years ago

issue 02 May 2015

Honduras wants to establish start-up cities to experiment with alternative economic, regulatory, and legal systems. Could this concept help stop mass migration into Europe?

Ancient Greeks, living in a time and place when poverty was endemic, were adventurers and readily took to the seas to establish their start-ups abroad, all around the coasts of the Mediterranean.

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