01 / RESOURCES
Opening your first
coffee shop
Practical help for first-time UK founders — based on what I learned actually opening one.
Start hereTHE PERSON BEHIND THE PROJECTS
I’m Mark.
At nearly 40 I decided opening a coffee shop with no previous café experience would be a sensible thing to do.
It wasn’t particularly sensible, but it did become KULT.
Since then I’ve started sharing more of what actually goes into building things — money, decisions, mistakes, experiments and all the bits that normally get tidied up before anyone talks about them.
I’m interested in business, people, media, technology, brands and trying ideas to see whether they’re actually any good.
Some will work. Some won’t.
Either way, I’ll probably talk about it.
FOLLOW THE THREAD
One thing leads to another.
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 KULTALSO IN THE NOTEBOOK
Books, future projects and a few ideas that aren’t ready to leave the page yet.