Anyone Can Do It: Building Coffee Republic from Our Kitchen Table - 57 Real-Life Laws on Entrepreneurship

By Sahar Hashemi and Bobby Hashemi

Anyone Can Do It chronicles the start and evolution of a successful business dream. Beginning with the Hashemi siblings' first conversations (when the seed of the idea was planted) it follows the progress of Coffee Republic from business plan to the present day. Coffee Republic is now worth around £50m with 90 outlets around the UK.

This is a start-up business book for real people. Sahar and Bobby take the reader step by step through every aspect of starting and growing a business from asking 'why?' and writing the plan to hiring staff and letting go. The book is illustrated throughout with inspirational anecdotes from their own experience. It is a very personal story of dreaming, acting and succeeding offering a myriad of lessons for aspiring entrepreneurs and blowing apart the myth that only 'special' people start successful businesses.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Wiley
• Release date: May 14, 2004
• ISBN: 9781841125930

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Reviews for Anyone Can Do It

[ifti4younas · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

I bought this book because I really wanted to see through the eyes of entrepreneurs of how they built their ideas into a full business. The business was in the retail setor so it really appealed as I have not come across many books on this subject. I thought the book was good read, showing how to take an idea forward and that key to success is looking for the right locations, bootstrapping and constantly refining to get the right formulae. However there were parts that were patronising like finding funding, where the authors tell us that they started of because of contacts as apposed to running around finding funding, Overall a good read but do not expect tips on how to do it.