My Money in My 20’s: Self-employed People Have to Do Everything Themselves
One of the things that discourage most 20 something year olds from establishing businesses of their own is the perception that they will have to do everything themselves. With this comes fear that most of your time will be dedicated to the business meaning your social life could end and everything in your life will revolve around the business.
Severin Air Unveils Daily Flights to Holiday Resort in Mombasa
Severin Air Safaris has unveiled daily flights from Nairobi to Vipingo Ridge, a luxury resort within the Kenyan Coast. From December 21st, 2012 up until January 6th, 2013, the courier will fly to and from Mombasa, taking passengers to the 2500-acre gated community.
Sweet Nothings Of The Sugar industry: Part I
The Agriculture PS blames the shortage on shut-down and repair of some sugar companies such as Sony Sugar and Chemelil. But there's more, there's always more.
Those Bad Banks We Hate to Love- Part II
Queues in Kenyan banks are always quite the spectacle. There are 12 counters available but really, only three are functioning. The line obviously moves slowly and precious hours are wasted waiting. To make matters worse, we are actually charged to wait in line. Hilarious, right?
8 Things You Should Know This Morning
1. NSE Eyes Mining Sector with New Market Segment The Nairobi Securities Exchange is fast tracking operations in the Growth Enterprise Market Segment (GEMS) to attract incoming players in the natural resources and mining sector. This will help the companies listed in the segment to…
Mobile App that Backs-up, Restores data and Secure Data
It will cost mobile users KES 650 to backup, restore and wipe out data.
How Much Money Should You Make As A Musician?
According to a Music Salary Guide from the Berklee College of Music, Vocal Artists should not earn anything less than KES 13,000 per gig.
Benchmark Coffee Prices Up by 9.9%
The Nairobi Coffee Exchange has reported that Kenya’s benchmark coffee grade climbed for a third successive sale, rising 9.9% to $400 (Approx. KES 34,440) for a 50-kilogram bag, from $364 (Approx. KES 31,340) at the previous sale two weeks ago. NCE says that supplies of the grade rose…
Error 403: Internet is Forbidden
Last week, a little known international organization called the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) met in Dubai to draw up new rules to regulate the Internet, a process that is generating Hurricane Sandy-sized controversies among netheads. This ITU guys are up to endorsing some of the most worrisome…
High Court Postpones Initial Ruling of December 31st Analogue Switch Off Deadline
Justice Isaac Lenaola gives the government side up to Thursday December 20th for inter-parties hearing and initial directions of Cofek's case against 31 December analogue switch-off plan.
Cofek Accuses Telkom of Deceiving Customers
Telkom Kenya now faces a suit from Consumer Federation of Kenya (Cofek) for deceiving customers to purchase its unlimited bundles. Through its campaign dubbed: Unlimited changes with Orange, Telkom Kenya has been selling its unlimited internet packages for months. But…
Financing For Start-ups: Growth Stage Financing
We have briefly tackled what venture capitalism is and who a venture capitalist (VC) is in part 1. Last week we looked at early stage financing and the purpose of the 2 legs of financing at this stage in preparation for growth stage financing. This…
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