Sahar hashemi biography template

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Are entrepreneurs born or are they made?

Sahar hashemi biography template pdf

Sahar Hashemi, 47, thinks they must be made: she "never wanted to be an entrepreneur". However, shortly after qualifying as a lawyer in she realised that, in her own words, "I wasn't very good at the law". With expected job offers failing to materialise, she went to visit her brother, Bobby, in New York.

While she was there she fell in love with the low-fat coffee widely sold there what we all now know as a "skinny latte". Yet when she returned to the UK, she found to her disappointment that they were hard to track down.

So she took matters into her own hands.

Sahar hashemi biography template

She and Bobby set up their own chain of coffee bars, called Coffee Republic. They raised the money via a bank loan from NatWest, underwritten by the Small Business Loan Guarantee Scheme. Along with money from an angel investor, this funded Coffee Republic's first site, which opened in Hashemi admits now that at first she was