01 / RESOURCES
Opening your first
coffee shop
Practical help for first-time UK founders — based on what I learned actually opening one.
Start hereMARK GRAHAM / BUSINESS OWNER & CREATOR
I have ideas.
I try them.
I share
what happens.
Business owner, founder of KULT and serial starter of things. I share the decisions, mistakes, numbers and occasionally good ideas along the way.
BUSINESSES BUILT.IDEAS TESTED.LESSONS LEARNED.STILL FIGURING IT OUT.
A BIT OF CONTEXT
Well, that
escalated.
I opened my first coffee shop with no previous café ownership experience, spent considerably more than I expected, learned a ridiculous amount and somehow ended up with even more ideas afterwards.
This site is where I’m putting the useful bits.
A little more about me ↗CURRENTLY ON THE GO
Things I’m building.
Opening your first
02 / STORIESCOMING SOON
The Indie
Project
Independent business owners across Britain. What they’ve built. What it really takes.
Follow the project03 / THE REAL THING
KULT.
Where it started.
The coffee shop that started most of this. Gosforth, Newcastle upon Tyne.
Visit KULTNOT ANOTHER DAILY EMAIL
Occasionally useful.
Always from me.
Emails about business, projects and things I’m trying.