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The $100 MBA Show

MBA10 Must Reads: Anyone Can Do It

The $100 MBA Show

Omar Zenhom

Careers, Entrepreneurship, Business, Marketing

4.91.2K Ratings

🗓️ 18 August 2014

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

This is our first Must Reads episode, where I discuss a book I highly recommend and explain why you should read it ASAP. I also discuss why the book influenced me as an entrepreneur and what were the major insights I found when reading it.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Heyo! Welcome to the Hunter-R MBA Show I'm your host Omar Zinnom, I'm teacher I'm your coach on everything you need me to be

0:15.2

And today's a very special episode of the $100 MBA show. It's our first must read episode now in these episodes we're going to be talking about a book I really recommend you should read a book that I think has changed the way I thought about business and really kind of was a paradigm shift for me.

0:35.2

So I really would like you to read the book as well.

0:38.2

So in these episodes we're going to be releasing must-read episodes every 10 episodes. This is episode 10. The next one is

0:44.3

episode 20 you get the pattern. Okay so so this first book is a book that

0:49.2

really affected me as a young entrepreneur. So let's get down to business.

0:54.0

Today's must read is a book called anyone can do it by Sarah and Bobby Hashme. They're actually

1:05.0

brother and sister and they are the founders of a coffee chain in the UK

1:09.5

called Coffee Republic. It's a very large coffee chain. It's one of the first, you know,

1:14.4

barista Starbucks-like coffee chains in the UK. They actually were there

1:18.2

before Starbucks came out. And they were a huge hit.

1:23.5

They're still a hit.

1:24.5

There's a lot of branches of Cover Republican in the UK.

1:26.5

And anyone can do it, the book, walks you through their journey of starting their business.

1:32.0

A bit of background about Sarah and Bobby Haschmy, the authors,

1:35.0

they have no background in business before starting Coffee Republic,

1:40.0

and they walk you through all the different steps they went through from the conception of the idea all the way to the implementation to being a huge success with stockholders and you know this huge huge business now before I give a quick

1:54.8

overview of the book I want to first talk about why I think you should read the book

1:58.1

there are two reasons why I think you should read this book the first reason is they expose everything, all their pains, all their fears,

2:06.1

all their problems, all their mistakes that they went through when they started their

2:09.7

business and it's their first business and they knocked it out of the park

2:14.0

but they actually show you a lot of struggles and tribulations they had along the way.

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