Grace Ngaie Mwanzia is the founder and director of Twenty Fifth Hive (25th Hive), a beauty products line that is based in Nairobi.
I started my business with Sh. 200 only. I was in my fourth year at the Stathmore...
M-Pesa Agent: Patrick Macharia was among the first pioneers of the M-Pesa business in Kenya. By the year 2017, he had 256 M-Pesa agency shops spread across the country.
“Most of us (early adopters) were unfamiliar with the kind of...
Cheap Business Ideas in Kenya: More often than not, I see people stating that they have a certain amount of money and would love to know what business they can invest in.
Away from the popular view that starting a...
Tracking and budgeting all your expenses for every month is not an easy undertaking if you are just getting started. You will either give up midway or find that you spend outside your allocations.
This struggle can be easily solved...
Pyramid Scheme Kenya: Emily Kamunde-Osoro is the director at Rise & Learn, a human resource and leadership consulting firm.
Biggest money mistake:I put Sh. 700,000 that I had borrowed to fund my Master’s degree in a pyramid scheme. Back then,...
Mitumba Business Kenya: BY CAROLINE OBUYA: Grace Wambere is a wife, a mother, and Chief Executive Officer of Mitumba Chap Chap. Like any ambitious young girl, my thirst for higher education and a better life led me to pack...
Starting insurance business in Kenya: The question, to Jane Njoroge, has always been: How does this thing work?
Jane founded her company, Capital Alliance Insurance Agency, when she was only 23. Yet she still has the insatiable thirst of that...
Victoria Musyoki is the founder and CEO of Kiddie World, an adventurous company that targets children and young adults.
Secret to my business success: We take care of our customers and our employees and they take care of making profits.
We...
Lewis Momanyi is the founder of Leminet Consulting Group, a management consulting company offering business advisory services.
We started this business 5 years ago. We started by offering consultancy services on business set up in Kenya to foreign companies that...
Evelyn Shuku worked as the operations manager at Hemingways Nairobi, a luxury five star boutique hotel.
Biggest money mistake: Sometime back, I trusted a salesman on an education insurance product that I took for my children. Although I kept making...
