{"id":28,"date":"2011-11-10T09:41:57","date_gmt":"2011-11-10T16:41:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/nmcleod\/?p=28"},"modified":"2011-11-20T16:54:15","modified_gmt":"2011-11-20T23:54:15","slug":"28","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/nmcleod\/2011\/11\/10\/28\/","title":{"rendered":"Hungry For a Challenge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Do you think you have what it takes to start a business with $100? Jeff Swedarsky did when he started <em>Food Tour Corp.<\/em>\u00a0in 2007. Purchasing a filing licence and an online domain name all for $110, Jeff was prepared to put in a lot of work to start up his food tour company, which toured customers around the many local restaurants and bars in Washington, D.C. He set up a deal with the restaurants, giving them a cut of his ticket price for every tour. Jeff&#8217;s only qualification for a company such as this was a powerful love for food; this has proved to be enough. From giving only a handful of tours in his first year, Jeff now has to limit his daily tours to 14 people and is hoping to break $300,000 in sales by the end of this year. He employs 23 part time staff and never gives tours himself anymore. Jeff defied the stereotype that entrepreneurs need a large amount of capital to start up a business, instead choosing to invest a substantial amount of time and effort, truly embodying what it means to be an entrepreneur.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I began with $100 and 100,000 hours of work&#8221;-Jeff Swedarsky<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424052748703720504575376664285510930.html\">Article<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do you think you have what it takes to start a business with $100? Jeff Swedarsky did when he started Food Tour Corp.\u00a0in 2007. Purchasing a filing licence and an online domain name all for $110, Jeff was prepared to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/nmcleod\/2011\/11\/10\/28\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9371,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/nmcleod\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/nmcleod\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/nmcleod\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/nmcleod\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9371"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/nmcleod\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/nmcleod\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/nmcleod\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28\/revisions\/30"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/nmcleod\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/nmcleod\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/nmcleod\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}