Comments on: Small Business Startup: How A Beer Company Turned Problems Into Profits

By: Vanessa Bennett

Vanessa Bennett — Wed, 05 May 2010 22:52:59 +0000

i run a small business both online and offline and they serve as my primary source of income. my small business at home is a mini hyrophonics vegetable farm.’*-

By: Brian Armstrong

Brian Armstrong — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 04:10:23 +0000

Hi Vance,

My advice would be to call up Brock. Seriously, he is very willing to help out entrepreneurs and went through this exact process. Just look up the St. Arnold’s phone number and see if you can get through to him, for a few minutes of his time from a fellow entrepreneur. I bet he’d take the call.
Brian

By: Vance

Vance — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 22:57:23 +0000

I have questions for everyone with experience starting a beer company. My partners and I have plan to start up a beer company. We have identified a niche market and a created a formula for a special beer. Problem is we have virtually no money to start this. We have excellent marketing skills and ideas. We have designed great packaging and marketing materials and a website. We are confident we could sell our product. Our question is: could we, and how would we, go about finding a brewery willing to brew a small quantity of great beer using our formula (really just a mixture of additives which can be added prior to bottling) so we can start this operation without having to start an actual brewery? Mind you, no deception here… marketed as great beer with this special ingredient. We even have a local chain of small specialty markets who, I believe, would take our product on a trial basis. Would a brewery likely, want a fortune, up front? Do you think a brewer would possibly be interested in partnering? Should we start looking for investors before anything else? How little can we reasonably try to produce we can test-market our product? Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

By: Giles M

Giles M — Fri, 15 Jun 2007 23:37:01 +0000

Thanks for the reply. I’d be really interested in hearing more detail about what happened in the future- this is another inspirational tale waiting to be told!
Thanks.

By: Brian Armstrong

Brian Armstrong — Fri, 15 Jun 2007 16:57:07 +0000

Hi Giles, you’re right this was short on specifics, and I think the really powerful message in this case is not what he did, it’s the fact that he kept trying and trying and trying despite setbacks. This type of “inspirational” post is not as valuable to those looking for specific advise, so hopefully some of the other articles on this site accomplish that better. Thanks!
Brian

By: Giles M

Giles M — Thu, 14 Jun 2007 18:31:58 +0000

Very interesting article… but nothing about HOW he actually improved the business. Wasn’t that the point?

By: Charles Mamet

Charles Mamet — Sat, 09 Jun 2007 10:15:25 +0000

Very inspiring particularly since it is very similar to what my son and I are going through right now. We started our own business 13 years ago and are still struggling due to lack of finance.
Thanks to stories like yours we are more confident that it can happen if we persist, which is exactly what we intend to do. Never ever give up.

By: C.C.

C.C. — Tue, 05 Jun 2007 01:39:28 +0000

Wow…this is just another grat example from great sources like Napoleon Hill and Tony Robbins.

Those that gain massive success, are those that learn to handle massive failure and massive rejection.

Very inspiring!