24 Daily Habits
This post is brought to you from The Change Blog “We first make our habits, and then our habits make us” – John Dryden I have previously written about how the habit of exercising every day has helped me tremendously. Doing something every day is…
10 Tips on Creating Wealth
We all want to get wealthy, each for our own personal reasons. Bernard Were gives 10 very simple and universal tips on creating wealth, from making sure you pay yourself first, to understanding how time influences our wealth.
Entrepreneur Focus – Peter Owiti of Pete's Coffee
Marked as, possibly, the most successful start-up at the Nairobi iHub, Pete’s Coffee provides the caffeine that is needed to fuel the designers and developers that call the iHub their work-space. The Money Academy caught up with this…
How to be a Billionaire
As carried on Shaun Rein Have you dreamed of becoming a billionaire? Based on the response I’ve gotten to my recent article “Three Myths About Starting…
British American IPO Opens
The new shares of British-American Investments Company (Kenya) Limited has been opened for purchase by the public following the approval by the Capital Markets Authority (CMA) of a request by the company to raise Ksh5.85 Billion from the capital market through an Initial Public Offering (IPO) of its shares. The…
5 Disastrous Financial Moves We Just Can't Seem to Avoid
As carried on There is no doubt that financial literacy has enjoyed a great boost, thanks in no small part to the internet and the decentralization of information. However, there are some very basic financial mistakes that we continue to make even though most people know better.
How to Stop Procrastinating
The second half of the year is here, and with it comes the reveiwing and checking how far along we are with the plans we made at the beginning of the year. Unfortunately, for many of us, we are most likely, nowhere near where we had hoped to be at…
Entrepreneur Focus: Mbugua Njihia – Founder, Symbiotic Media
Read about Mbugua Njihia, Chairman-Mobile Monday Kenya, and founder of Symbiotic Media Consortium
In the News: Nakumatt has a Discount Offer for You
As posted on BizExtras Times are hard and consumers are each day shocked at the cost of food items. Nakumatt Supermarkets are trying to make it bearable and has partnered with some companies to offer discounts especially on food and basic household items. Below is a press…
Dummies' Guide to Getting an Online Job
Our friends over at Like Chapaa have put together a book on how to get an online job. Have you ever thought about getting an online job? Imagine a job which you can do from your own bedroom, in your pyjamas. Imagine a job which you can…
British American courts Kenyan bloggers to sell IPO
British American Investment Company, a leading diversified financial services group in the country offering a wide range of insurance and asset management services, last week held a cocktail for online financial writers and bloggers in a groundbreaking move to engage the country’s online community. The company is seeking to raise…
Friday Round-up – 1st July, 2011
The second half of the year is here and this are some the things that you may have missed in the last week of the first half of 2011: In the News Daily Nation The rich more likely to die from heart disease British-American IPO set for…
Rationalizing Our Way into Being Broke
A couple of days ago, I was meeting Truphosa*, a possible contributor to PesaTalk at a coffee house in Upperhill. I had just settled in and taken a look at the menu when she walked in, looked extremely miffed. She sat down and without looking at the menu, asked for…
Friday Round-Up
The Verdict is out, the sliding shilling means that our lives will become a whole lot more difficult. It won’t be about tightening belts but making another hole in the belt to accommodate this round of high prices. The Daily Nation states that the low shilling means increased commodity prices-…
Cementing your Stocks
Part of being an investor is latching onto trends and investing early on. As a new investor what do you need to know about investing in the cement industry? The construction sector in East Africa is booming as governments splash huge sums of their budgets on infrastructure development. This coupled…
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