In The News — coffee

People in Coffee 2018: Building Community at Every Level Behind all of the business news stories we publish here on Daily Coffee News, there are countless untold stories of passionate and motivated people — those keeping businesses afloat while molding the arc of progress. This year, we wanted to shine a light on some of these individuals, giving more visibility to inspirational people in the industry, while also hopefully providing some insight into what it takes to build a career in specialty coffee. We chatted with coffee professionals from around the world and all parts of the supply chain for our People in Coffee series in...

Black Friday, Small Business Saturday, Cyber Monday (and its counterpart Green Monday–the second Monday in December) were all dreamed up by retailers to raise the revenue quotient as they slash prices and shout about the dwindling amount of days left to shop. But conscious consumers are looking for a better reason than discounts to support brands. Recent consumer research by Walmart found that 90% of female customers are willing to go out of their way to buy a product from a woman-owned business. The good news is that they aren’t that hard to find. Over the last decade, there was an increase...

Since founding Kohana Coffee, I’ve learned that women entrepreneurs asking for money often get turned down. That’s no surprise—the deck has historically been stacked against us. But I was surprised to learn that it’s not because we ask for too much. Women typically are turned down for funding because they’ve asked for too little.The people we’re pitching often don’t think we’ve requested enough to get the job done. Why do we underbid ourselves? As women, we’re trained from a young age to only ever ask for what we need to get by on rather than ask for what we need to...

FIRST THOUGHT: Have a Cup of Joe Why is it that when we’re a kid, we want to stay up late, forgo our naps and party like it’s 1999? But when you’re an adult, you dream of an uninterrupted nap, followed by a full night’s sleep. Every day seems like a struggle to attain the ever-elusive energy of our youth. When my third morning alarm sounds, sometimes I immediately start fantasizing about bedtime. Of course, there are some things that’ll help you tackle the day’s tasks with gusto: Eat for energy. Chow down in the morning on low-glycemic foods whose sugars...