{"id":37572,"date":"2023-10-20T14:50:56","date_gmt":"2023-10-20T14:50:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/startupsmart.test\/2023\/10\/20\/mike-boyd-startupsmart\/"},"modified":"2023-10-20T14:50:56","modified_gmt":"2023-10-20T14:50:56","slug":"mike-boyd-startupsmart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/uncategorized\/mike-boyd-startupsmart\/","title":{"rendered":"Mike Boyd &#8211; StartupSmart"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"90\" height=\"110\" itemprop=\"image\" class=\"entry-thumb\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/mike-boyd.jpg\" alt=\"Mike Boyd\" title=\"Mike Boyd\"\/><\/div>\n<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-17760\" style=\"margin: 5px; float: right;\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/mike-boyd.jpg\" alt=\"Mike Boyd\" width=\"90\" height=\"110\" srcset=\"https:\/\/startupsmart-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/uploads\/2011\/10\/mike-boyd.jpg 90w, https:\/\/startupsmart-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/uploads\/2011\/10\/mike-boyd-61x75.jpg 61w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 90px) 100vw, 90px\" \/>Name:<\/strong> Mike Boyd <\/p>\n<p><strong>Business name:<\/strong> <a target=\"_blank\" title=\"Cupstart\" href=\"http:\/\/cupstart.com\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Cupstart<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Age:<\/strong> 23<\/p>\n<p><strong>State:<\/strong> Queensland<\/p>\n<p>  <span id=\"more-4295\"><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Mike Boyd started Cupstart out of sheer frustration \u2013 he was sick and tired of waiting in around in coffee queues.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI can\u2019t stand bad coffee and the only other option was to queue for a decent brew. I developed Cupstart to allow me to order my coffee online, ahead of time, and collect it on arrival,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Cupstart also offers a prepaid option, dubbed the \u201cE-Toll of coffee\u201d by Boyd, so customers don\u2019t have to sift through their wallets for cash or coins.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Boyd started his entrepreneurial journey at the age of 11, selling lost golf balls, before going on to launch no less than seven businesses.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>As founder and director The Hive Brisbane, Boyd has built the largest not-for-profit community for entrepreneurs in Queensland, employing his first staff member at the age of 18.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He\u2019s also the co-founder of Seventh Bloom, sits on the board of various other not-for-profits, and regularly attends events as a business speaker.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cStarting my first business at age 11, I knew I was destined to follow my own path. Not because others\u2019 paths weren\u2019t any good \u2013 they simply weren\u2019t mine,\u201d Boyd says.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI truly believe that being an entrepreneur is one of the most surefire ways to making a difference in the world. After all, entrepreneurs spot opportunities where others see problems and find a solution that is of value to the market.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Name: Mike Boyd Business name: Cupstart Age: 23 State: Queensland \u00a0 Mike Boyd started Cupstart out of sheer frustration \u2013<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":61899,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37572"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37572"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37572\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61899"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}