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As a second year student in the entrepreneur program at Grand Valley State University, Dave Zokoe is learning how to identify and capitalize on business ventures.
But GVSU is not the only place where Zokoe, a Jenison High School graduate, is receiving his education on what it is to be a successful entrepreneur. Last January, days before his 23 birthday, Zokoe bought Dillenbeck's Coffeehouse located at 1059 W. Fulton St., on the West Side.
As a young boy, Zokoe remembers frequenting local restaurants and seeing the owners mingle with the customers. It was an image that would stick, and motive him to someday have his own business.
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