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5 Minutes with Entrepreneur: Cakeflair CEO, Juliet Nnamdi-Uzoezie

Sometimes the craving for a cupcake just hits you. You are going through your day, managing projects, getting things done when WHAM! It hits you - you've got to have a cupcake. Last week, when that craving hit our office, we called Cakeflair, a cake couture company based in Ikeja. Entrepreneur and CEO Juliet Nnamdi-Uzoezie personally delivered a box of freshly made red velvet cakes to our office door; although she had more deliveries to make on the Island (VI), Mrs. Nnamdi-Uzoezie chatted with us for a few minutes about her experiences in leading a successful small business in Lagos.

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3 Business Lessons from Steve Jobs

I won't lie to you, I still am a little shocked that Steve Jobs has passed. People like him, who are able to build and create and make tangible, the things seen first in their minds, should live until they are 200. Longer, in fact.

As someone who's enjoyed Mr. Jobs beautifully made products for years now, and as a lover of technology, the internet and digital media, his passing has me feeling both incredibly sad, but also, incredibly grateful. Grateful because although he only lived for 56 years, he was absolute proof that if you dare to be who you are, you can literally change the world.

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Farewell to Our Friend, Steve.

His name seems to linger in the air, “Steve Jobs”, the man who changed the world, changed the way we identify ourselves, “MAC or PC?”

At his core though, he was a guy with a dream; a regular guy from California who enjoyed beautiful design and tinkering with technology.  He found his mischievous match in friend, and Apple co-founder, Steve Wozniack, together they enjoyed pushing envelope and sought to do something different with their lives.

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Effective Networking

It's not what you know, it's who you know. We've all heard it. And for most of us it's a phrase which simply makes us wish we knew more influential people. But even for those who don't have an uncle in government, or a cousin on a national newspaper networking is a vital element of successful business. Read more

Demystifying the Business Plan

Myth: Business plans are behemoth documents that must be 100 pages, contain 5 year projections, 15 graphs and specific details on how you’re going to exit the business in 3-5 years.

Fact: Business plans are meant to be guides to help you articulate your business vision. They can be as long or as detailed as necessary but what matters most are clarity and depth.

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