Josephine Caminos Oría is the founder of La Dorita Cooks, an all-natural line of dulce de leche products and Pittsburgh’s first resource-based kitchen incubator for start-up foodpreneurs. Josephine is also the author of the cookbook as food-memoir, “Dulce de Leche: Recipes, Stories, and Sweet Traditions” (Burgess Lea Press, February 2017).
Entrepreneurial Role Models:
Josephine’s father
When business started difficulties overcame:
“I was not aware of all the licensing and regulations that goes into marketing a food product and selling a food product, talking about the FTA, but also our local county, food safety regulators as well as the department of agriculture so there are several levels of regulation that a new food start up has to licence with and become really aware of all the regulations”…[Listen for More]
Favourite Books:
The Alchemist: A Fable About Following Your Dream Book by Paulo CoelhoFavourite Quote:
“Follow the whispers of your own heart”
Recommended Online Resources:
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Best Advice to Other Entrepreneurs:
“Seek a community of likeminded persons, if you are in tech and you’re looking to create a prototype try to find a coworking tech shop, if you are in food, try to find a food incubator because not only Neil will these places provide a proxy for capital to have you safe resources on co sharing a space they really provide you access to a network of persons that are going through the same struggles and journey that you are right now”…[Listen for More]
More About Josephine Caminos Oría:
Neil’s Quote at the Beginning:
“Answers were always important, but they were seldom easy.” Patrick Rothfuss
Other Quotes From the Chat with La Dorita Cooks:
- “If something is waking you up in the middle of the night Neil, your life is telling your something, if you’re having ideas but you claim you’d never be able to do it, your life is telling you something, if you have an idea but you shove it in the back of your head, the despair you can feel the next day is worse than just sitting down and trying to chart it out on a business plan and saying hey can I actually see this through”
- “I do believe that any entrepreneur listens to the whispers of their heart and they take a leap and follow that, there are many that don’t and they’ll often regret it for years to come”
- “Be authentic”
- “It works, on some level or another”
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