Sawmill Business Podcast

HOW END GRAIN FURNITURE BUSINESS STARTED Mike Rupich first started all by himself doing custom furniture. He thinks is his parents really trusted him when they let him run around with big power tools when he was younger! He would build stuff and work with tools and as he got older, this became a passionate hobby although he never thought he could ever make money from it. For years, he built himself furniture because he couldn’t afford the ones he wanted. Then one person after another wanted to buy his furniture and it surprisingly turned out to be a full business. He’s acquired different sawmills over the 10 years he’s been in business and now it's a full-scale metal and wood fabrication shop. In addition, they also sell the wood that they mill themselves. BUSINESS CHALLENGES & INVESTMENTS Being just a passionate man with no business skills, handling the day to day business operations was quite a task for Mike. It's one thing to burst with talent and skills, it's another to handle the business side of