Casey Zeman spent college tuition money starting a coffee shop, then got shut down for 14 months over compliance issues. He survived on pop-ups and events, finally reopened, and learned more about business than any degree could teach.
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I looked at it, like, paying for tuition to go to, like, a good private college because I learned, yeah, a lot about, you know, business and compliance. Again, I still was able to get my brick and mortar open back up and, you know, stable to where I can, you know, now get back to the community, get back to doing what I love, making coffee. Yeah. All those things, etc. Etc. So that's kind of, like, powerful. That's crazy. And so while all that compliance was happening, you were still selling coffee? Nope. I was shut down. I was shut down doing events, written parties, doing pop ups, that type of thing. I did whatever I could do to just open and pay the bills until those 14 months is over.