Wesley and I completed the temporary job we set out to do in Maryland. We needed funding for our documentary and we were given an opportunity to earn some extra money. We leave for Tennessee either tomorrow night or Tuesday. We’re hoping to get a fun day with family tomorrow before we head home.
We earned enough to pay our July bills, and that leaves us some money to invest. We don’t know how to invest yet, so, that leaves us with three projects we have to complete in July.
1. Get a presentation ready (including cupcakes) for the Entrepreneurs of Knoxville: We are going to present our newspaper, documentary venture and our first three cupcakes for the “Building a coffee house one cupcake at a time.” campaign.
2. Create a start up business plan; including finding out what it takes to run a business in Anderson County / Oak Ridge, TN.
3. Execute the start up plan using the investment capital we raised on our trip to Maryland. It’s not much, but it’s better to invest in a business than to spend the money and not try to make a return on it.
I’ll outline how what our proposed budget is. Later, I’ll write about how we actually spent the money, (once we get back to TN and execute our plan) and then how we plan to get our money back through sales. Of course, this chapter has not been written yet and we don’t know how our plan will turn out. It looks good on paper though!
It’s going to take a long time to get a coffee house going without going into debt. That’s the toughest part of our documentary. I want it all, and now, but we have to do this by raising the capital first, then build the coffee house. I am learning to love our journey.
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