The Road To Becoming a Non-Exec
Following the sale of my company Cake in 2017 and working with the acquiring company for a couple of years, I left the business and began thinking about what I ...
What is an MVP and why is it important?
A minimum viable product (MVP) is a concept that I feel is often misunderstood, particularly by people who are not technical or used to building technology pro ...
Looking After Yourself
This is a blog I wish I’d read before I started my business because I probably would have had a different outlook. When I started my business in 2001, there ce ...
The Need to Raise Money?
This Blog takes a pragmatic look at the options to raise money both at the start-up stage and at the high growth stage. Although the title refers to raising mo ...
Benefits of an IFA
As I said in my blog Ignore Personal Development at Your Peril, it’s easy to forget to look after yourself when you’re starting a new business. In that blog, I ...
Team Working from Home – A Hybrid Model
Working from home is a really relevant topic right now and I have some opinions on this based on the last ten years of trying various ways of running a modern ...
The Importance of Building and Being Part of a Community
I’ve talked in previous blogs about the importance of community and how this was an important part of Cake. Cake worked hard throughout its existence to be an ...
The 3 Cs: Designing Office Space to Represent your Culture
In around 2012, Cake was still in the same converted cotton mill in Manchester that we’d started out in. It was ideal from a travel perspective, from a cost pe ...