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The 3 Thing That Cafes Do To Make Entrepreneurs Millions

Dominic Medford
6 min readApr 10, 2024

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It would be a really interesting exercise to see what percentage of businesses came to life in cafes.

The number of hours that a person has sat in a coffee shop nursing that single cup of coffee because that’s all they could afford in those early days of their fledgling idea.

The revenue that cafes lost out on potential because of occupied seats of that laptop user, chewing up the wifi bandwidth.

Reading countless biographies of success stories that all talk about their late nights or long days where a entrepreneur would lose track of the hours, only be prompted to leave when the lights were turned down for the night.

These success stories talk about giving back to those who helped them and had supported their endeavours in its infancy.

I believe that the humble coffee shop can’t be forgotten in this thanks.

An Environment of Acceptance

I’m sitting in a cafe at the moment in Hanoi, Vietnam fiddling away on this post why also dabbling on others small projects. I have a table to myself in an air conditioned space.

I have spent about $2USD on a coffee that will last me about 2 hours before I begin to personally feel obliged to buy another. But the pressure…

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Dominic Medford
Dominic Medford

Written by Dominic Medford

Law and Political Sciences student in Australia who dabbles in writing about his thought processes in his spare time with the hope that it can be insightful.

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But the pressure to do so is not imposing itself into the culture of the serene space.

I would feel the need to buy more. I’d feel like they were looking at me.