Welcome to the How of Business with Henry Lopez and David Begin, the podcast that helps you start, run, and grow your small business. And now here are your hosts.

This is Henry Lopez. Welcome to this episode of The Howa Business. My guest today is Colby Williams. Colby, welcome to the show.

Hello, thank you so much for having me. Excited to have you. Colby's an entrepreneur and he's also

written a book. And so in today's episode, we're going to chat about Colby's entrepreneurial journey,

his launching and operating of his coffee shop with his parents called Perengo Coffee.

And what he believes are a significant small town entrepreneurial opportunities.

He wrote a book called Small Town Big Money.

And so we're going to chat about that as well.

Colby founded Perengo Coffee in Sykeston.

I think I got that right. Sykston, Missouri, a very small town with his parents in 2013.

They have won several awards for coffee and roasting and for entrepreneurship, including in 2015 a fellowship, which he received with the Delta Entrepreneurship Network from a pitch competition that he participated in.

His time with other fellows that are part of that fellowship gave him the idea for the

book, Small Town Big Money.

The book is about entrepreneurship in small towns and how smaller communities are changing to intentionally attract entrepreneurs.

The hardcover comes out in, is it still January, Colby?

Yes, sir.

Great.

So January is when it comes live.

But by the time this episode goes live, you'll probably be out.

So definitely visit the show notes page for more information about that.

We'll have a link to it as well as Colby will share the link for the book itself.

Colby is the vice president also of historic downtown Sykston, which is their neighborhood revitalization and economic development organization.

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