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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
I broke up with my VC boyfriend.He told me that he wasn’t in the right place to have a relationship when the hours and workloads are getting crazier and crazier. I can’t give up as I’m getting so close and I have a lot of people to prove wrong. Wrong timing? I read an article…
There is one episode of ‘The Profit’ that touched me deeply. It shed new light about what a business is and what it means being an entrepreneur. What happen in the episode The story starts with an award winning key lime pies business that was struggling to sustain its business. Marcus Lemonis came in with…