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How to Start a Cottage Bakery: The Complete Step-by-Step Guide (2026)

How to Start a Cottage Bakery: The Complete Step-by-Step Guide (2026)

Fifteen years ago, I started selling cookies out of my home kitchen with zero idea what I was doing. I didn't know my state's cottage food law existed (though, at a much more limited capacity at the time) I priced my first orders by "feeling it out", and I found out...

5 Things I Wish I did Differently When I Started my Business

5 Things I Wish I did Differently When I Started my Business

I started my first ecommerce "venture" when I was 11 - selling counterfeit k-pop bookmarks on Soompi forums (do not recommend doing this today), using free internet hours from the AOL discs that I gathered from my friends/family. I tied up the phone line a lot and my...

5 Things to Consider Before Quitting Your Day Job

5 Things to Consider Before Quitting Your Day Job

Many of you who follow me on Instagram know that as of Nov 1, 2019-- I went all-in on Borderlands Bakery. Up until that point, I had a super solid career in biotech and was quite "successful" by the traditional/socially normal definition (skillset, recognition,...