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In this interview, Bose Ayeni, Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of the eatery, talks about the company’s listing, Private Placement (PP), challenges in the industry, its re-branding/expansion strategy and the expectations of investors in the company. Excerpts:

What are the challenges in the food business? In think in terms of challenges, for every Nigerian business, the first and foremost issue is that of power supply, there is no power supply. When this occurs, we rely on generator sets. Of recent, the price of diesel has worsened the situation.

Not only are you contending with replacing your generators, you are also looking at the running cost constantly. This is one major challenge.
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Eat’N’Go Limited is the Nigerian Premiere Quick Service Restaurant company behind some of the biggest names in the quick-service food business in Nigeria, including Domino’s Pizza, Cold Stone Creamery and now Pinkberry.

The Eat’N’Go Nigerian story started in 2012 with the opening of its first Domino’s and Cold Stone outlet which has grown into 70 stores with over 2,000 indigenous team members spread across the country. The company recently expanded its network of outlets with the opening of a food-court style megastore in Ikoyi, Lagos. In this interview, Patrick McMichael, who has been in the industry for 28 years, discusses how a company full of treats is taking their business to another level. Excerpts:

Conquering the Nigerian market for Six years is no small feat. How do you guys do it? Click here to continue reading

Eat’N’Go Limited is the Nigerian Premiere Quick Service Restaurant company behind some of the biggest names in the quick-service food business in Nigeria, including Domino’s Pizza, Cold Stone Creamery and now Pinkberry.

The Eat’N’Go Nigerian story started in 2012 with the opening of its first Domino’s and Cold Stone outlet which has grown into 70 stores with over 2,000 indigenous team members spread across the country. The company recently expanded its network of outlets with the opening of a food-court style megastore in Ikoyi, Lagos. In this interview, Patrick McMichael, who has been in the industry for 28 years, discusses how a company full of treats is taking their business to another level. Excerpts:

Conquering the Nigerian market for Six years is no small feat. How do you guys do it? Click here to continue reading

Running your own company is an intense roller coaster ride. The highs are high, and the lows debilitatingly low. Here are five lessons from five African business executives on how to grow a start-up into a flourishing enterprise.

1. Know why you are doing what you’re doing.
When starting out, most entrepreneurs typically have a rough idea of where they want to take their businesses. But as they are confronted with real-world realities, vision and mission statements quickly become little more than PR tools and words on the company website.
However, for Ken Njoroge, co-CEO of pan-African digital payments business Cellulant, the original vision remains front and centre of everything the company does, even more than 15 years after starting the business. In fact, Njoroge and his co-founder, Bolaji Akinboro, decided on a goal before they were even 100% certain through which type of business they would achieve it. Click here to continue reading.

Bankole Cardoso is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Easy Taxi Nigeria, a round-the-clock, car-on-demand service. He was asked 15 questions on himself, his company and how to successfully start and run a business. Here are his answers:

For the benefit of those who don’t already know you, please can you tell us a little bit about yourself and Easy Taxi as a brand you represent?
My name is Bankole Cardoso and I am the Founder and CEO of Easy Taxi Nigeria. I was born and raised in Lagos before moving to the United Kingdom to attend Rugby School. I then moved on to the United States to study business management at Boston College. Click here to read more

Bankole Cardoso is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Easy Taxi Nigeria, a round-the-clock, car-on-demand service. He was asked 15 questions on himself, his company and how to successfully start and run a business. Here are his answers:

For the benefit of those who don’t already know you, please can you tell us a little bit about yourself and Easy Taxi as a brand you represent?
My name is Bankole Cardoso and I am the Founder and CEO of Easy Taxi Nigeria. I was born and raised in Lagos before moving to the United Kingdom to attend Rugby School. I then moved on to the United States to study business management at Boston College.

I started my career with PriceWaterhouseCoopers in New York City where I was certified as a... Click here to read more

It is widely proclaimed, and generally believed, that access to finance is the biggest single problem facing Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises in Nigeria. Many experts cite the counter narrative that shortage of technical know-how, executive capacity and limited market opportunities are far bigger obstacles to entrepreneurial success.

Be that as it may, the Federal Government remains unrelenting in its search for solutions to the financial problems of Small Business Owners and Independent Professionals. It has a growing range of policies and programmes that seek to provide debt and equity support for new entrepreneurs through access to soft loans. Click here to continue reading

What is a business plan? A business plan is a planning document which summarises the operational and financial objectives of a business. It contains detailed plans and budgets showing how the business will pursue and realise its set goals.

Why do you need a business plan for your business? A business plan is a vital first step for anyone starting a business. It is the due diligence needed to prevent you from wasting time and money on a business idea that might not work. If you have a business idea... Click here to continue reading

Why do you want to own a business? There are various reasons why you may want to start and run your own business.

You want to be your own boss rather than be an employee. You are tired of people telling you what to do. You want to have choices. You want to be the one to decide what to do.

You have a dream and want to put energy into building it. You want to move from helping to build other peoples’ pet projects to fleshing and shaping out your own dream. You want to build something to call your own. Click here to continue reading

Question: How Do I Reach The Right Customers?

Answer: The first step in reaching your customers is to know who and where they are.

Who are your customers? Simply defined, your customer is any person who can benefit from the use of your product or service. Your challenge, as the provider of a product or service, is to identify such person(s), by geographic location, demographic description, psychological inclination or any such characteristics that separates them from the general population.

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Question: How Do I Reach The Right Customers?

Answer: The first step in reaching your customers is to know who and where they are.

Who are your customers? Simply defined, your customer is any person who can benefit from the use of your product or service. Your challenge, as the provider of a product or service, is to identify such person(s), by geographic location, demographic description, psychological inclination or any such characteristics that separates them from the general population.

It is after you understand who your customers are and why they are likely to buy your product or service that you begin to find channels to get your product or service before them. Click here to continue reading

Validation is a very important step in deciding to introduce a product or service into the market. Validation is far more important than design, features, price, or how much you would need to launch, or the need to start assembling your team.

What, then, can you do to avoid delivering a product or service that no one will pay for? Click here to get a simple framework:

The entrepreneur, the single most powerful word in modern history, and for good reason. With the economy plummeting to unknown depths and dragging everyone with it, this prompted many to start their own businesses now more than ever. Start-ups are being created left right and center. Tech giants like Google are born. Countless of web-based platforms are founded. More people are getting into farming and merchandising. In essence, successful entrepreneurs are taking charge of the market. Many met with great levels of success but a great many others failed.

It is reported that 90% of all start-ups failed. It is a scary figure but when you take a moment you will find out there is a reason those 90% failed. The obvious one being they gave up. To really become a successful entrepreneur you have to build yourself, develop yourself and your character. We will be looking at 7 ways you can become a better entrepreneur and avoid the backlash of starting an enterprise.

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The entrepreneur, the single most powerful word in modern history, and for good reason. With the economy plummeting to unknown depths and dragging everyone with it, this prompted many to start their own businesses now more than ever. Start-ups are being created left right and center. Tech giants like Google are born. Countless of web-based platforms are founded. More people are getting into farming and merchandising. In essence, successful entrepreneurs are taking charge of the market. Many met with great levels of success but a great many others failed.

It is reported that 90% of all start-ups failed. It is a scary figure but when you take a moment you will find out there is a reason those 90% failed. The obvious one being they gave up. To really become a successful entrepreneur you have to build yourself, develop yourself and your character. We will be looking at 7 ways you can become a better entrepreneur and avoid the backlash of starting an enterprise.

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Have you ever wondered how you can start and grow your business?

As a small business owner, you may have dreams of your company becoming the next Amazon or Apple, or you might be content making a splash in your local community. Either way, you may wonder how you can make it against large companies that seem to have the people and resources to do the things you can’t do.

Just because your business is small, that doesn’t mean you can’t think big. The following are ways you can grow your small business without a big budget.

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