Entrepreneurship becomes the ‘in’ thing when people started celebrating and worshiping unicorn companies. However, there are numerous articles circulated in the web telling us about sweat and tears behind the pride in telling people ‘I run my own business’. I couldn’t agree more having gone through some crushing moments myself, like how it hurt when…
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5 reasons to travel without planning
I am a backpacking junky. In my last trip, I thought I travel without planning and go with the flow since I’d always diverged from plans in my past experience. Knowing only the hostel I would be heading and nothing beyond that, I was a bit nervous when I embarked on the journey. However, it…
Love Wins, everyone said
I grew up with my gay best friend He confessed in me about being gay 5 years ago before I flew off to Australia knowing that we wouldn’t see each other in a year. We hugged and we cried. I felt sorry for being ignorant, for not knowing his struggles throughout the years we grew…
5 Truths About Starting Your Own Business
I had been spending too much time telling brand stories that I almost forgot my own voice. My mind was working 24/7, thinking about launching new brands, social media channels, and content marketing strategy among many other confusing timelines. We are a lean team and each of us has a lot to take on. This…
The day Anthony Bourdain showed me a piece of the real world
I watched Anthony Bourdain’s Parts Unknown while having dinner one day. It was the episode when he visited Libya in 2013. It was an eye-opening episode. He talked to people who hold guns and went on the battlefield to take down Gaddafi during the revolution. They were killers. A man said that Gaddafi left him with no…
Is it worth it?
One and a half months into being a (over-rated) ‘startup founder’, a friend asked me this question knowing that my team was making coffee in an event until 4 am in the morning. It was a weekend. He started to project our total revenue, profit margin, earning per hour and all the hard figures, leading…
How mum becomes my frenemy for life
Frenemy noun fren·e·my \ˈfre-nə-mē\ : one who pretends to be a friend but is actually an enemy I spent my teenage years trying to prove my mum wrong in everything. Teenagers hate to be told what not to do and they think they are in control of everything. It annoyed the hell out of me when mum banned…
The Things About Turning 25
I feel like I have to write about my quarter-century of life journey. Being 25, would anybody care if I said here are 10 life lessons I’ve learnt, and I want you to know that? Being in mid twenties is alarming, it is time when you have to stand for something and no longer the…
6 Lessons I Learn from Solo Travelling
Steve Blank said that the best parenting advise he got was when someone told him that ‘your job is to teach her (his daughter) how to leave’. I think my parents excel in that. I am blessed with parents who are open-minded, supportive, and trust me with life decisions. They don’t blink no matter what crazy things…
After 14 Days of Nepal- Lost and Learn
I just came back from Nepal recently. Without knowing what to expect, I only did minimal research to get a minimal guidance about major attractions to visit, and packing tips for trekking so that I don’t die on the mountains. While I was on 6 days Annapurma Base Camp trek, I fell in love with…
Dear coffee snob, a research backed approach to win your customers
Coffee is a happiness business. It’s a legalised drug that stimulate good mood (at least for me). Things get a little complicated in the era of third wave coffee, when we coffee people are obsessed with single origin, COE micro lot, and original flavour of coffee. Coffee is supposed to be acidic! Fruity! With blueberry…
So you want to open a café? 6 (not-so-rosy) insights from the experts
A lot of people who enjoy coffee aspire to become a café owner one day to serve the coffee they love. Passion can definitely fuel your drive to run a café, but running a sustainable café business is a different ball game altogether. Joshua from espressolab and Daphne from Assembly Coffee are generous enough to…