StartupStorytelling Ep 10 - Laura Davenport - The Blue Julep

Before she was baking wedding cakes for 900 people on Michigan Avenue, Laura Davenport was a Kentucky chemistry grad who went to law school, practiced civil and appellate law in Jackson for eight years, and then stepped away to raise five kids. Brandon Marken and Alex Masten sit down with the founder of The Blue Julep, the downtown Jackson specialty dessert shop heading into its tenth year. Laura talks about turning a home business that took over her house into a storefront, the wedding cake that nearly melted mid-ceremony, how a volunteer became her first employee, and getting through surgery right as her manager walked out the door. She also shares the one question that helped her finally drop a product she loved: would I still make this if it paid three times as much?