Friday Face-off: The Battle of the Internets
Yes. It says ‘Internets’ up there. As you can tell, we are big fans of LOLcats Inspired by @Mwirigi‘s post on the new data bundles offered by Safaricom, we sent out one of our research bots to find out how various ISPs compare…
Money Advice for Twenty-Something Year Olds
A question that arises severally: I would like to know how to go about saving, being a student in my final year in campus. This is because it gets difficult to save when the little cash am given is meant for my upkeep in a month and the same amount…
Choose your medical insurance cover wisely
Medical costs have a way of getting at you when least prepared, often indirectly through your parents, siblings and others not included in your policy. It is therefore prudent to have some cover for these dependants. Choosing what cover to subscribe to is hard, many assume that the cheaper…
Getting My Money Right
Ever since I turned 30, everyone wants to know how it feels and I tell them, so far, it’s the same as when I turned 29. But even I know 30 is one of those ages people think about long before we get to it. I don’t know exactly where…
Face-off Friday: DStv vs Zuku vs Smart
With the competition in the pay TV field in Kenya getting tougher, who offers the best bang for your buck? Is it the 15 year old DStv – the first pay TV provider in Kenya, the Wananchi Group offering, Zuku, which comes bundled with high-speed internet access and voice, or…
Before you Pick Up the Hoes
A series on creating extra income streams cannot be complete without a post about my favourite side hustle; farming. I don’t really need to make a case for farming on here, I believe it’s quite obvious. Food doesn’t go out of fashion, everyone eats from the rich to the poor,…
5 Easy Steps to Becoming a Millionaire
Who wouldn’t want to be worth a million dollars? Many of us dream of achieving this goal, more often than not for the sake of the freedom financial stability would bring. So how can we get there? The answers are actually much easier than you might expect. Here are several…
Dream and Values
My son awoke this morning, upset about a dream that I had died in a car wreck; not the sweet dreams I requested when he went off to bed the night before. Knowing that the dream frightened and upset his sleep was more disturbing to me, than the dream itself,…
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…
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