McCabe Callahan

Co-Owner, Mugs Coffee Lounge · 1 appearance on the record.

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Callahan founded Mugs Coffee Lounge in Fort Collins in 2002 and later opened Maida Trattoria in 2025. In 2011, he co-founded and served as CEO of Community Funded, a crowdfunding platform for universities and nonprofits that was acquired by GiveCampus in 2023.

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1 prediction · 3 assertions · 1 insight · 7 disclosures · every statement was checked. The prediction and assertions are the 4 claims: statements the public record can support or contradict. 1 is resolved, and 3 name no date, number or outcome precise enough to check. Everything else (opinions, insights, what ifs, disclosures) can never be settled by the record, so it carries no assessment.

The record, in short

What the tape says about how McCabe argues and how the claims held up. Everything they said, and everything said about them, is in the tabs below.

Their most notable supported claim

Assertion Supported
Callahan: Regular customers pooled funds to open second Mugs Coffee location
“I had given up. I was not going to expand. I was just going to focus on my singular shop. And I was telling my story to one of my customers that came in on a regular basis. And he basically said, well, I want to see another mugs in town. I'll chip in some mone…”
McCabe Callahan Apr 1, 2017 ▶ 9:38 EP 616: His Coffee Shops Do $1.8M But His Crowdfunding Platform is More Impressive With $550k 2016 Revenue on 486 Projects With $2.5M Funded with CEO McCabe Callahan

How they sound: not measured why? →

We measure speaking style by listening to the audio itself, and a fair number needs at least 2,000 words from one person on tape we have measured. There is too little of McCabe Callahan on measured tape to publish a rate. This says nothing about how they speak.

Everything McCabe Callahan said on Top Founders that made the record, most notable first. Filter by type, assessment or year in the ledger →

Insight
Callahan: Coffee and alcohol are two recession-proof businesses
“Coffee, alcohol, man. Those are the two recession proof businesses.”
McCabe Callahan Apr 1, 2017 ▶ 6:50 EP 616: His Coffee Shops Do $1.8M But His Crowdfunding Platform is More Impressive With $550k 2016 Revenue on 486 Projects With $2.5M Funded with CEO McCabe Callahan
Disclosure
Callahan carried up to $700k in debt in his mid-20s
“At 24, 25 years old, I was probably sitting on 650 to 700,000 dollars in debt and not making very much money at all.”
McCabe Callahan Apr 1, 2017 ▶ 5:33 EP 616: His Coffee Shops Do $1.8M But His Crowdfunding Platform is More Impressive With $550k 2016 Revenue on 486 Projects With $2.5M Funded with CEO McCabe Callahan
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Callahan: Community Funded projects $1.2M in 2017 revenue
“Right now we're projecting 1.2 million dollars in revenue this year.”
McCabe Callahan Apr 1, 2017 ▶ 14:55 EP 616: His Coffee Shops Do $1.8M But His Crowdfunding Platform is More Impressive With $550k 2016 Revenue on 486 Projects With $2.5M Funded with CEO McCabe Callahan
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Community Funded facilitated $2.5M across 460 crowdfunding projects in 2016
“2016 for, you know, just over about 460 projects, we ended up raising about two and a half million dollars.”
McCabe Callahan Apr 1, 2017 ▶ 15:55 EP 616: His Coffee Shops Do $1.8M But His Crowdfunding Platform is More Impressive With $550k 2016 Revenue on 486 Projects With $2.5M Funded with CEO McCabe Callahan
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Callahan: Community Funded generated $550k in 2016 revenue
“Oh, 550,000.”
McCabe Callahan Apr 1, 2017 ▶ 16:04 EP 616: His Coffee Shops Do $1.8M But His Crowdfunding Platform is More Impressive With $550k 2016 Revenue on 486 Projects With $2.5M Funded with CEO McCabe Callahan
Disclosure
McCabe Callahan operated five coffee shops and a bar by age 24
“By the time I was 24, I had five coffee shops and a bar rolling in this area.”
McCabe Callahan Apr 1, 2017 ▶ 4:04 EP 616: His Coffee Shops Do $1.8M But His Crowdfunding Platform is More Impressive With $550k 2016 Revenue on 486 Projects With $2.5M Funded with CEO McCabe Callahan
Disclosure
Callahan: Coffee and bar ventures generated $1.8M revenue in 2006-2007
“I was doing about 1.8 million at one point back in 2006, seven, when I had all of it going”
McCabe Callahan Apr 1, 2017 ▶ 4:23 EP 616: His Coffee Shops Do $1.8M But His Crowdfunding Platform is More Impressive With $550k 2016 Revenue on 486 Projects With $2.5M Funded with CEO McCabe Callahan
Disclosure
Callahan's two coffee shops generated $1.3M in 2016 revenue
“I'm doing about 1.3 million in sales between two shops now. Nathan Latka: That's great. And it's really just, McCabe Callahan: That was last year's revenue.”
McCabe Callahan Apr 1, 2017 ▶ 7:14 EP 616: His Coffee Shops Do $1.8M But His Crowdfunding Platform is More Impressive With $550k 2016 Revenue on 486 Projects With $2.5M Funded with CEO McCabe Callahan
Assertion Supported
Callahan: Regular customers pooled funds to open second Mugs Coffee location
“I had given up. I was not going to expand. I was just going to focus on my singular shop. And I was telling my story to one of my customers that came in on a regular basis. And he basically said, well, I want to see another mugs in town. I'll chip in some mone…”
McCabe Callahan Apr 1, 2017 ▶ 9:38 EP 616: His Coffee Shops Do $1.8M But His Crowdfunding Platform is More Impressive With $550k 2016 Revenue on 486 Projects With $2.5M Funded with CEO McCabe Callahan
Disclosure
Callahan: Community Funded raised $475K seed followed by $1.81M round
“So the first round was for four and 75,000 dollars to build the product and get our first customers effectively did that. And when we had customers signing up in the university space, higher education we decided to raise another round early scale. We knew our …”
McCabe Callahan Apr 1, 2017 ▶ 11:05 EP 616: His Coffee Shops Do $1.8M But His Crowdfunding Platform is More Impressive With $550k 2016 Revenue on 486 Projects With $2.5M Funded with CEO McCabe Callahan
Disclosure
Callahan: Community Funded charges $5K-$10K implementation plus $12K-$25K annually
“Yeah, so right now, specifically in this market of higher education and healthcare, we have an implementation fee typically ranges between five and 10,000 dollars, and then we'll typically have an annual subscription that ranges between 12 and 25,000, dependin…”
McCabe Callahan Apr 1, 2017 ▶ 12:38 EP 616: His Coffee Shops Do $1.8M But His Crowdfunding Platform is More Impressive With $550k 2016 Revenue on 486 Projects With $2.5M Funded with CEO McCabe Callahan
Disclosure
Callahan: Community Funded serves 30 universities including Penn State and Illinois
“So we're serving 30 higher education institutions, including some really reputable names like Texas State University and University of Illinois. Penn State is another one, Colorado State University.”
McCabe Callahan Apr 1, 2017 ▶ 13:16 EP 616: His Coffee Shops Do $1.8M But His Crowdfunding Platform is More Impressive With $550k 2016 Revenue on 486 Projects With $2.5M Funded with CEO McCabe Callahan

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Appearances (1)

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EP 616: His Coffee Shops Do $1.8M But His Crowdfunding Platform is More Impressive With $5 Apr 1, 2017 10m
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