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…
What you need to Start a Business in Kenya
Ever wanted to start a business but don’t know where to start? Here is a break down of the documents you need and the procedures. Some of the processes might take slightly longer than projected but it has improved. 1. State registration Registration the business as legal entity,…
Manage Your Expenses, but See Them First
It is one of those things easier said than done: managing your expenses. All of us have trouble with it because we never have enough money to do or have everything we want at any one time. And so we find that we have to make budgets. I bet you…
5 Ways Farmers will benefit from the Budget
Agriculture employs more than 80% of Kenya’s populace whether directly or indirectly. This fiscal year’s budget was more or less drawn to tackle the problem of inflation especially in the high food and fuel prices in the country. The minister allocated a lot of funds to the supply side of…
Junk in the Trunk
Susan has a very good job with a multinational and earns a salary that most people will give their right arm for. She dresses well, lives in a nice neighbourhood and from first impressions especially given her income you would think that she would not have any problem investing or…
Tips on Responsible Spending Habits
We all know about the dangers of drug and gambling additions, but believe it or not in recent years there have been numerous studies regarding the dangers of shopping addictions as well. Thousands upon thousands of people suffer from shopping addictions, which in medical terms is termed as “omniomania,”…
Entrepreneur Characteristics- Are you one?
Entrepreneurs have some distinct characteristics that define who they are and explain how they are able to see opportunity where others see none or difficulty. -Always learning- they look at every new opportunity as something they can learn from. They expand their knowledge ken by reading, going for formal training…
Bonds. Central Bank Bonds.
Yes those bonds. The Central Bank is re-issuing treasury bonds from 3/6/ 2011 to 21/6/2011. The bonds are 2, 5 and 20 year periods. The minimum amount you can invest is 50,000/= The bonds will be listed at the Nairobi Stock Exchange. Buying treasury bonds is advisable if you have…
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