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

I bought this book after watching Sahar's Ted Talk and I'm so glad I did. For any budding entrepreneurs, this books gives you real life examples of how she started from scratch and built a coffee empire. The book is filled with insightful advice and guidance to show you how to make your dreams happen. If you think your dream is too far out there or impossible, reading Sahar's climb to the top will inspire you and motivate you to conquer your circumstances and just take the first step towards your dream. I highly recommend this book!!

I enjoyed this bookInspirational and has some great advise for all those would entrepreneurs out there. If you are thinking of opening your own coffee shop or start up business then you might just enjoy this book too.Worth a read

amazing book for entrepreneurs to build abase knowledge for how to begin a business. I recommend everyone to enjoy with studying that book.

very nice book

Recommended book on 100 MBA

A great book, easy read, full of insights into the process of opening a chain of Cafés in the UK (in the 90s).

Bobby and Sahar tell it like it is...this is not a book that analyzes the details, but rather lays it out in a way that anyone can relate to and maybe even do it!

Good book!

Very interesting book. I read it like a novel and enjoyed it very much. The book relates a personal insight of the authors' journey from a dream to a success in a very personal and open perspective. There is no ''magical solution'' described in their venture but if read carefully, the book does list what to do and not to do. I highly recommend the book for anyone who is contemplating on opening a coffee shop or any other retail business in the food industry.

This book from 2002/03 was (then) one of the leading originals in the (now) almost saturated 'you can do it too' entrepreneurial genre. I actually met the author, Sahar Hashemi at the emda/Business Link "New Business New Life" Enterprise Show near Nottingham in early February 2004. I always remembered when she took questions from the audience after her presentation, on the theme that (like her book title) 'anyone can do it', how someone pointed out her elite education, New York living corporate lawyer career and, well, er ...... 'well-heeledness'. To which she replied "it didn't matter, didn't add anything and wasn't a factor". I was so starstruck to meet her, that I took her side, when she mentioned this point in conversation with me. However, reading through the pages of this book you are constantly reminded that Sahar Hashemi is not just 'anyone', the book's title seeming extremely ironic.Respectfully, Sahar's rise from riches to more riches is difficult to relate to. However, overlooking this, it is absolutely chock full of wise 'real-life' advice, how-to-do's, lessons and tips/tricks for all stages of the entrepreneurial experience. Disregard Sahar's gilded background, ignore the reference to 'having to choose between buying a Prada coat and building her business' (!) and soak this up. It is still one of the original and best entrepreneurial story reads. I bought this second copy as a back-up. It is that good, over ten years since it was published!

Dieses Buch beschreibt wie die Geschwister Hashemi in England einen Coffee-Shop nach amerikansichen Muster gründen. Sie beschreiben den Werdegang ihrer Idee bis zur Verwirklichung und bis zum Ausbau zu einer Kette sehr ehrlich und interessant. In England gibt es die Coffee Republic inzwischen in fast jeder größeren Stadt und damit wurde Starbucks (die größte Coffee-Shop-Kette der Welt) ganz gut ausgebremst. Dieses Buch wird auch in den Läden von Coffee Republic verkauft und ist in diesem Sinne schon eine Art von Werbung, allerdings haben sich die Geschwister Hashemi aus der Leitung der Coffee Shop-Kette zurück gezogen und bauen gerade ein anderes Produkt auf. Es ist vielleicht interessant zu wissen, dass die beiden keinerlei Berufserfahrung in Sachen Kaffee, Röstung, Gastronomie oder Nahrungsmittel hatten. Sie hatten außer ihrer Idee gar keine Ahnung oder Wissen, wie man einen Coffee Shop aufbaut, nur ihre Vision und ihr Enthusiasmus reichten aus, allerdings waren die beiden in anderen Berufen (Jura, Investmentbanking) durchaus erfolgreich und auch bereit, sehr hart zu arbeiten.Letztlich hatten sie von zuhause durchaus ein wenig Geld, aber das Wesentliche wurde von Banken geliehen und mit Businessplänen aus Fördermitteln finanziert. Wer ein Unternehmen gründen will und sich fragt, ob das wohl möglich ist, selbst wenn man keine Ahnung von der Branche oder dem Produkt hat, erhält hier eine interessante Antwort. Eigentlich sollte es nicht so sein, aber es kann funktionieren. Das Wie beantwortet dieses Buch ganz gut.

I did enjoy reading this book. It is well written, interesting and the format is querky and readable. However, I would take slight issue with the title - 'Anyone Can Do It'. Whilst the principles of starting a business are sound, the fact that one author was a top London lawyer, the other an investment banker working for Leeman Brothers, with a Father who was a CEO and with friends and contacts all over London including multi millionaire fathers of people they went to school with - I would argue that not everyone can do that! Whilst anyone can start a business I think the phenomenal growth of Coffee Republic was due in part to the circumstances and privileged background of the founders.

This was such an honest approach to business, it somehow took the fear out of me starting my business. Loved the way it was written and it gets down to the nitty gritty of their journey. Loved it!