How A Mensch Created The $100 Mil Noah’s Bagels After Bouncing Back From A Failure – with Noah Alper
Noah Alper is open about his setbacks. His previous company, which aimed to sell giftware from Israel to born-again Christians, “was a total and absolute failure,” he admits. But things change fast for entrepreneurs and just 6 months after he closed that business, he launched Noah’s New York Bagels and “had a tiger by the tail.”
In this program, you’ll see how he did it by being a mensch, a Yiddish word which means “a person of integrity.”
Noah Alper
Noah’s New York Bagels
Noah Alper is the founder of Noah’s New York Bagels, which he sold for $100 million 6 1/2 years after launching it. He is also the founder of six other ventures, including the grocery store company, Bread & Circus, once the Northeast’s largest natural foods chain and now part of Whole Foods Market. Today he consults in areas of entrepreneurship, strategic management, executive coaching and business planning.
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