Brewing Up a Business
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Entrepreneurial dreams do come true! Starting with nothing more than a home brewing kit, Sam Calagione founded Dogfish Head Craft Brewery and made it America's fastest growing independent beer. This unconventional business story reveals how Calagione found success by dreaming big, working hard, and thinking differently-and how you can do it too. "Rarely is a book as good as a beer but this one is. It's written with humor, humility, and passion, essential ingredients for any entrepreneur." -Bob Guccione Jr. founder of Spin magazine and Gear magazine "Brewing Up a Business will inspire bo
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on “Ask YC: Let's start a Hacker News book club” ↗…who follow craft brewing, "contract brewing" is one of the ways to start a brewing business at relatively lower risk (with the other being "brew pubs"). (This is according to various books, such as "Brewing Up a Business" (by Sam Calagione of Dogfish Head Brewery) and "Beer School" (by Steve Hindy and Tom Potter of Brooklyn Brewery), as well as conversations with contract brewers.) To the "beer geeks", there's seemingly…
on “The Genius of Starting a Company Without Outside Capital” ↗