Issue 01
The vending issue
Walks you through vending — the exact business Mike broke into first.
- Picking your first location
- Running your first real route
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Issue 02
The portfolio issue
Pulls back further: what it actually takes to build income beyond vending.
- Cash-flowing, unglamorous businesses
- The ones that build real income — not the ones that just look good online
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Meet Mike Hoffmann
He started at $1,200 a month.
Mike went from working 60 hours a week at a 9-to-5, barely clearing $1,200/month, to building 150+ vending machines generating $200,000+/month in a few years — proof that unglamorous businesses build real wealth.
That was just the start. Mike used that first business to build three more. Entrepreneurship Collective is his playbook for going from zero businesses to boring business master.
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