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The Inforium

What It Takes to Open a Coffee Shop (Ep. 114)

The Inforium

Thomas Frank and Martin Boehme

Work Smart, Career, Class, Productivity, Lifehacking, Learning, Business, College, Education, Lifestyle Design, Personal Branding, 101, University

4.8998 Ratings

🗓️ 27 June 2016

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

Entrepreneur Dale Schotte talks about his experiences turning a lone coffee shop into a six building operation in St. Louis, Missouri. Full show notes Things mentioned in this episode: Park Avenue Coffee website IMDb entry for Food Feuds episode featuring Park Avenue Coffee Cortex Innovation Community Arch Grants TechShop Want more cool stuff? You can find all sorts of great tools at my Resources page. You can also get a free copy of my book, 10 Steps to Earning Awesome Grades (While Studying Less), by staying up to date with the College Info Geek newsletter. If you enjoyed this episode, subscribe to the podcast on iTunes! It's easy, you'll get new episodes automatically, and it also helps the show gain exposure :) You can also leave a review! See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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Hey what's going on everybody and welcome to the College and

0:41.0

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0:42.0

My name is Thomas Frank and this is a show that helps you become a more effective student.

0:46.8

And in this episode, you're going to learn what it takes to open a coffee shop.

0:51.5

Now hear me out.

0:52.2

I know this is probably not a goal that every

0:54.3

single student has, but this is an episode that I was a bit curious about because

0:59.1

when I was in college I had a friend of mine who really wanted to open her own coffee shop when she graduated and she asked me,

1:05.0

you know, what's your advice for doing that? I know you don't own a coffee shop, but you own your own business and maybe some of your advice can translate over to the coffee business.

1:14.4

And I was like, I don't know.

1:16.1

The only thing I can think of is for you to go get a job at a coffee shop,

1:19.5

work your way up to being the highest level person you can be and just soak up as much

1:24.1

knowledge as you possibly can and that is exactly what she did actually she

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