| You could: 1. bundle your offer with a subscription to a newspaper. Possibly with a large subscription purchase, you'd save enough money that your customers would get a deal for coffee AND the paper while you up the revenue. 2. add breakfast! smoothies? Breakfast burritos? Those take time, are usually pretty healthy, and are highly portable. 3. send them a morning playlist??? like a new jazz/downtempo CD of their genre preference to get ready with while they wait? If I'm busy, which is what I'm going to have to be to use your service, I probably don't spend a lot of time getting new music. 4. have really really good looking delivery people. Nothings gonna make someone get ready faster and better in the morning than that. Hire college sororities/intramural soccer teams? 5. market yourself to startups that want their folks to come in before just getting free lunch--like a jumpstarter for their day. Maybe they'd pay a bit to see if you can get their engineers in by 9:30-10. 15-20 bucks for an extra hour or two of work sounds like a stellar rate for a top flight hacker... Honestly though man, I'd use this as a vehicle to learn about starting up and not as the roadmap. Take all the gravity out of the situation. This should be a fun experiment to learn how you and your team operates, how you adapt when you're not getting traction, nothing more. I respect the hustle, but this most likely will not work out. If I have time to wait for you to deliver coffee, I have time to make myself some. |