First of all, thank you to the admins/mods for activating my account even though I'm not technically employed by a brewery (yet).
I'll try to keep this short and sweet. My friend and I are partnering up to develop a business plan for opening our own gig. He's a professional brewer, I work in the creative and advertising field. In theory, we'd save a lot of money on outside marketing and creative costs behind the brand by doing that all in house. We have a name and logo picked out, we have a theme picked out and have started working on 3D tap room concepts to show potential investors in the future. We're pretty hell bent and determined to pitch to investors and not a bank. We both believe it's just not a very safe to go the way of a business loan from a bank at this point in our lives.
He wants to start with a 3BBL system with the concept in mind of keeping a continuous rotation tap list on hand, perhaps a few repeats in the beginning.
Our next step we're working on is meeting with a financial advisor. Neither one of us are "math" people. I've seen example business models from a friend of mine who was a professional brewer. It was quite detailed, down to how much the hoses would cost for your dishwasher to be replaced a year later.
----- With all that ^^^ said ----
I'm sure a few of you reading have been in these shoes before. What are some additional things for us to think about, or even resources?
The math is going to be biggest obstacle to get nail down and the most time consuming. The second most consuming I'd have imagine would be working with contractors to take concepts and execute them. Anything else dealing with the beer and brand itself, I'm not worried about... piece of cake.
Any and all comments and suggestions are welcome, I may not respond immediately; but I will be monitoring the thread.
I'll try to keep this short and sweet. My friend and I are partnering up to develop a business plan for opening our own gig. He's a professional brewer, I work in the creative and advertising field. In theory, we'd save a lot of money on outside marketing and creative costs behind the brand by doing that all in house. We have a name and logo picked out, we have a theme picked out and have started working on 3D tap room concepts to show potential investors in the future. We're pretty hell bent and determined to pitch to investors and not a bank. We both believe it's just not a very safe to go the way of a business loan from a bank at this point in our lives.
He wants to start with a 3BBL system with the concept in mind of keeping a continuous rotation tap list on hand, perhaps a few repeats in the beginning.
Our next step we're working on is meeting with a financial advisor. Neither one of us are "math" people. I've seen example business models from a friend of mine who was a professional brewer. It was quite detailed, down to how much the hoses would cost for your dishwasher to be replaced a year later.
----- With all that ^^^ said ----
I'm sure a few of you reading have been in these shoes before. What are some additional things for us to think about, or even resources?
The math is going to be biggest obstacle to get nail down and the most time consuming. The second most consuming I'd have imagine would be working with contractors to take concepts and execute them. Anything else dealing with the beer and brand itself, I'm not worried about... piece of cake.
Any and all comments and suggestions are welcome, I may not respond immediately; but I will be monitoring the thread.
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