Anyone Can Do It
Building Coffee Republic from Our Kitchen Table - 57 Real-Life Laws on Entrepreneurship
2nd Edition
Published on 23. March 2004
218 pages
978-1-84112-593-0 (ISBN)
Description
Anyone Can Do It chronicles the start and evolution of a successfulbusiness dream. Beginning with the Hashemi siblings' firstconversations (when the seed of the idea was planted) it followsthe progress of Coffee Republic from business plan to the presentday. Coffee Republic is now worth around £50m with 90 outletsaround the UK.
This is a start-up business book for real people. Sahar andBobby take the reader step by step through every aspect of startingand growing a business from asking 'why?' and writing the plan tohiring staff and letting go. The book is illustrated throughoutwith inspirational anecdotes from their own experience. It is avery personal story of dreaming, acting and succeeding offering amyriad of lessons for aspiring entrepreneurs and blowing apart themyth that only 'special' people start successful businesses.
Reviews / Votes
"...This is an engaging read, as well as a useful guideto starting a business..." (Financial Times, 10 February 04) "entrepreneur's bible" (Eve, March 2006)More details
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Sahar Hashemi | Bobby Hashemi
Anyone Can Do It
Building Coffee Republic from Our Kitchen Table - 57 Real-Life Laws on Entrepreneurship
Book
12/2003
2nd Edition
Capstone Publishing Ltd
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Persons
Sahar and Bobby Hashemi are the sister and brother team who built Coffee Republic, the UK's original high street coffee chain. Giving up highly paid professional jobs, she a lawyer in London and he an investment banker in New York, they staked everything on a dream - to create the best coffee chain in Britain. Eight years later they are two of the most successful and high profile entrepreneurs.
Content
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS.
PREFACE.
CHAPTER ONE: CAN ANYONE BE AN ENTREPRENEUR?
TO BE OR NOT TO BE AN ENTRPRENEUR.
CHAPTER TWO: THE IDEA CHAPTER.
DO YOU HAVE A LIGHT BULB, OR DO YOU NEED TO FIND ONE?
CHAPTER THREE: MARKET RESEARCH.
CHAPTER FOUR: WRITING THE BUSINESS PLAN.
CHAPTER FIVE: RAISING MONEY FOR YOUR IDEA.
CHAPTER SIX: IMPLEMENTATION.
CHAPTER SEVEN: BEING IN BUSINESS.
IF YOU BUILD IT, WILL THEY COME?
CHAPTER EIGHT: GROWING.
FROM BIRTH TO MATURITY.
ROLADEX.
INDEX.
