The punch everyone already asked for
CJ's Punch didn't start as a business. It started as the thing you brought. Rooted in a Kittitian and Jamaican family, it was the rum punch asked for by name before anyone took a plate of food.
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Birth of a NATION
About twenty years ago a mutual friend introduced Marc and Donovan, chasing the same thing: a place where people actually reached the goals they walked in with. So they opened a gym.
Jazzy’s Brewhaus
We built the menu out of our neighbours. The beans, the bread, the brews are all local, and a lot of what comes in goes right back out into Perth.
The Locker Room by TreyFadez
I started cutting hair in my parents' garage at seventeen. The whole business grew out of the rooms I was already in, the locker rooms.
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If you have run a business for a few years, you know things that matter to every founder coming up behind you. Mentioned exists to make that knowledge visible. We lightly edit for clarity and length. No commercial pitches, no thinly disguised marketing. Just the real version of what you would say to another founder over coffee.
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