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We're thrilled to share Little Professor is opening a 2nd location at Pepper Place this fall! We're so grateful to continue our dream of building community hubs that bring joy and connection!

Today I’m announcing a new venture called Indie, an ops and tech platform for modernizing Main Street. Long live local. jrob.medium.com/friends-meet-i…

loved this one by Sophie Vershbow "...the lists aren’t made by committee; it’s one guy’s reading habits, albeit a guy who reads pretty widely, is an immensely gifted writer himself, and happens to be the former president of the United States." esquire.com/entertainment/…

Sharing the most common FAQs from the past few months of pitching, positioning, and growing this little idea. by jonathan robinson jrob.medium.com/indie-explaine…

Indie shop #3 Good Books, Cornwall, NY instagram.com/goodbooksny?ig…

Shop #5, coming in June Commerce Street Books | Charlottesville, VA Follow along: instagram.com/commerce_street

"Why on earth would I open a brick and mortar bookshop..." in an age of powerful AI: 1. Reading Helps You Actually Know Stuff There is, in other words, a practical and therapeutic value of reading, and I think it is genuinely underrated. Sometimes I read not just to escape my

Fascinating takeaways for retail junkies from Acquired Podcast’s 3-hr Costco episode - avg single location does ~$280m 🤯 - avg location has 60k members - an early china location had 400k members in first 12mo - 70% of net income comes from membership - gross margin floor of 11%,

Reflection: hundreds of community businesses were started post-pandemic by digitally native ‘elder’ millennials, as Main St affinity & sense of place soared. Most stitched together their own DIY tech/ops solutions from Shopify/square or industry trade groups. A few years in,

The airport test At least 9 out of 10 adults are flippin’ thumbs on social media Someone should give out Bookshop.org gift cards to anyone reading

Shop #6, coming in July Northport Books | Northport, NY on Long Island Follow along: instagram.com/northportbooks