Anyone Can Do It: Building Coffee Republic From Our Kitchen Table: 57 Real-life laws on entrepreneurship
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Book Overview
Anyone Can Do It chronicles the start and evolution of a successful business dream. Beginning with the Hashemi siblings' first conversations (when the seed of the idea was planted) it follows the progress of Coffee Republic from business plan to the present day. Coffee Republic is now worth around ?50m with 90 outlets around the UK. This is a start-up business book for real people. Sahar and Bobby take the reader step by step through every aspect of starting and growing a business from asking 'why?' and writing the plan to hiring staff and letting go. The book is illustrated throughout with inspirational anecdotes from their own experience. It is a very personal story of dreaming, acting and succeeding offering a myriad of lessons for aspiring entrepreneurs and blowing apart the myth that only 'special' people start successful businesses.
Format:Mass Market Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:1841125792
ISBN13:9781841125794
Release Date:March 2004
Publisher:Capstone
Length:218 Pages
Weight:0.55 lbs.
Customer Reviews
5 ratings
You can too!
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 17 years ago
Witty, honest, inspiring and easy to read, this book will motivate wanna be and current entrepreneurs to press in and step out. I like the way this brother/sister team lay the foundation of their coffee shop business. Certainly, you may not want to start a coffee business, but perhaps you want to start your own business but don't know where to begin. This book spells out what you'll need to do to get going as well as how to grow the business - based upon their own experience! I am inspired and will certainly look through the book again and again.
Feel the experience of setting up your own business,
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 18 years ago
Very Nice book about feeling the experience of setting up your own business. The Chapters in the book flow smoothly. You will never feel bored while reading the book. If you are buying this book thinking that you will start your own coffee republic after you finish reading it, then find another book as this book will not guide you to start a coffee shop business. The book basically, will give you a real life example of starting a business, I started a business and I can feel my self when I read the book, I even feel that I know Sahar and bobby Hashemi because you will live the experience they live. Especially the bootstrapping part!! I wish they release a 2nd book about what happened next in their business. I gave it a 4 stars because I really wished they added sample letters they used in their communication, how they approached suppliers for equipments and based on what they decided to buy their equipments and who helped them make the decisions.
superb !
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 19 years ago
a great inspiration for anyone thinking about setting up their own business... I quit my job after reading it!.
Anyone Can Do It
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 20 years ago
I am a bubbing entrepreneur with a business plan, enthusiastic colleagues and little money. After seven months of trying with much encouragement from others and some financial commitments, I wish I had of picked this book up at the beginning of my search for funds. I would have done a few things differently. Every time I feel down I pick myself up before going to bed by picking up the book and rereading some chapters. The next day I am again ready to tackle the challenges ahead. This book is a must for every entrepreneur, as well as people already in business looking for a fresh approach. Unlike others, it not just tells their story, it also shows how they did it, which is rare. Most books of this type just cover the big picture stuff which anyone can read in newspapers and magazines. It is very easy to read and difficult to put down. My first reading (on a flight) was in fact two readings, as I kept going back over earlier chapters.
An inspirational guide for clueless entrepreneurs!
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 21 years ago
Sarah describes the birth story of coffee chain "Coffee Republic" (see above). Her trip to NY, the cravings for skinny lattes and foamy cappuccinos, the idea, the awful coffee in the UK or rather the lack of it, the business plan and finally the first shop in South Molton street! Read this book and you will discover that passion, enthusiasm, gut feeling, good timing, support and hard work will eventually pay off! Sahar and her brother Bobby are both millionaires, only eight years after the first Coffee Republic bar appeared in the market.By Thei Zervaki...
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