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Partnerships vs Solopreneurship and Partnership Do’s and Don’ts

I had someone reach out to me recently and ask if I’d written anything on this topic and I don’t believe I have since my first book, The 7 Day Startup, where I talked a lot about the importance of finding a co-founder.  In the years since, all of my business partnerships have ultimately broken […]

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Inventory 101 for breweries and roasteries

This post, just based on the title alone, will probably be in contention for the most boring blog posts I’ve ever written, and fuck me I’ve written some bad ones. Also a quick disclaimer, I’m no expert in this stuff and this is not financial advice. Feel free to add to the comments below if you […]

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East Coast Roast Marketing Plan

This is a quick post in the series about how I’m planning on marketing my new coffee brand East Coast Roast (check out the other posts here). It’s very easy to overcomplicate marketing and get overwhelmed to the point of not doing anything. Since buying the business, I’ve done basically no marketing and we don’t […]

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Inside the P&L of my coffee / cafe supplies business East Coast Roast

If you’ve followed my content you’ll know that last year I purchased a local Gold Coast Coffee Roasting and Cafe Suppliers business (Cre8ive Coffee) and I’m in the process of re-branding it to East Coast Roast. Here are some past posts about it: Depending on how long you’ve been following me, you may be aware […]

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Why it’s almost always a good thing when staff quit

June 2001 In my final year of University, after months of applying for jobs, I was close to giving up hope. It was 2001 when one man finally gave me a chance, and made me realise I might be able to make something of myself. The man was Mark Smith. He was the boss of […]

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A surprising thing happens when you lose

2 years ago I had it all. A loving partner, a multi million dollar business mega success story that I started from scratch, a multi million dollar house in my dream suburb, even my dream car a, 50 year old Volvo P1800. I lost it all, except for the partner thank god. But the house, […]

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Rebranding Cre8ive Coffee to East Coast Roast

In my last post I gave an update on how things were going 12 weeks into buying a coffee business, Cre8ive Coffee. In this post I’ll run through my plans and progress on rebranding the company. Related: 12 Weeks into Buying Cre8ive Coffee, an Update Backstory When I finished up at Black Hops, I fumbled […]

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12 Weeks into Buying Cre8ive Coffee, an Update

3 months ago after 17 years of always starting businesses from scratch, I decided to buy a business. It was by far the riskiest business move I’d ever made. Prior to that the most I’d ever personally put into a business was $100,000. This was ten times that amount, and it was at the lowest […]

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There is no “bouncing” back

I used to love my story. But I sit here now after waking up from another painful nightmare, one that has kept repeating for basically 365 days straight, no longer loving my story, trying to “bounce” back. I had my whole identity tied up with being a boss entrepreneur, and it wasn’t always good. In […]

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This week I bought 2 businesses

Well it’s been a big week. Have you ever wondered who buys traditional bricks and mortar businesses? I have. A few months ago after close to a year of doing basically nothing, I started looking at business sales sites. I was in a position where financially I had to sell my house and I was […]

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