How Much it Costs to Become President
With this year being an election year, both here and in the US, the local bars and rumour mills are rife with big numbers being bandied as to what the candidates will be spending. Unfortunately, unlike in the US, where the candidates are expected to declare what their…
22Seven: South Africa’s own Mint.com & Money Munk
Last week saw the launch of 22Seven.com, a website that links with banks and allows the site’s users to track their expenses and see how, and where, they spend their money. The site, structured like America and Canada’s mint.com,…
What I Wish I'd Known at 22
As I was going through my Google Reader account this morning, I came across this interesting post by Under 30 CEO on 8 Things I Wish I Knew I knew When I was 22, and it got me thinking: I recently turned 23 and…
When friends and work just don't mix
FORTUNE — When David Bakke was looking to move from restaurant management into finance, he immediately thought to contact a friend who worked at a mortgage-lending firm in Tampa. Based on the friend’s recommendation, Bakke was hired for a financial analyst position at the company. Then things turned sour. The…
Ray Kroc: The Man Behind The Success of McDonald's Corp.
“The definition of salesmanship is the gentle art of letting the customer have it your way.”-Ray Kroc When Ray Kroc was a child, his father took him to a phrenologist-a practitioner who claimed he could predict the future by reading the bumps on a person’s head. Kroc’s chart revealed that…
Visionary Entrepreneurs: Oprah Winfrey
Oprah Winfrey Founder of Harpo Productions Inc. Founded: 1986 “I don’t think of myself as a poor, deprived ghetto girl who made good. I think of myself as somebody who from an early age knew she was responsible for herself-and I had to make good.”-Oprah Winfrey Oprah Winfrey…
Why Joining a Startup Incubators is Better Than Joining a Business School
Let’s get this straight: If you want to work at Goldman Sachs, McKinsey or General Electric, an MBA is a handy scrap of paper. But if you’d prefer to bypass the corporate ladder and actually build something of your own, spending upwards of 1 Million Kshs and two years without…
Milking it in Nairobi: The Emma Ng'ang'a Success Story
Emma Nganga used to work in the corporate world. She used to suit up every day and head into Nairobi’s business district where she was a PR associate and represented large enterprises in multi-million dollar deals. You wouldn’t know that by looking at her now – she wears gumboots and…
Kenyans and Money
Kenyan’s and Money I love Kenyans and I love being Kenyan, we are hard working, toiling for between 8 to 12 hours a day or even longer, looking for cash. The average Kenyan will start hustling at an early age. Wafula who just completed his high school education in Western…
From Law to Maize Milling: a successful change!
Rwanda’s Felicien Mutalikanwa started his career as a lawyer, but after many years behind the desk decided that he wanted to do something else, something completely unrelated to his current position. Felicien didn’t let his lack of farming experience stand in the way of his dreams. “I don’t need to…
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