When Starting a Business Tastes Terrible

The Glamours of Entrepreneurship

Luke Chitwood
The Startup
Published in
4 min readJul 2, 2019

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On the day I typed this, entrepreneurship tasted like cigarette butts.

Photo by Tyler Nix on Unsplash

More specifically, the Chitwood family’s morning coffee tasted distinctly of spent cigarettes. We switched, temporarily — thankfully — from locally-roasted sustainably-sourced beans to a massive pre-ground canister of Chock Full o’Nuts.

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Luke Chitwood
The Startup

Writer, Storyteller, Problem-Solver. Beginner-level Husband and Father. Coffee drinker since age 1. #CollegeAccess, #Writing, & #HigherEd.