Google project has new graduates
Google yesterday saw its second class of entrepreneurs graduate from a $3 million (Sh300 million) mentorship programme
By Kagure Gacheche 6 years ago
Google project has new graduates
There’s no substitute for sacrifice when it comes to success
Musk’s success may be something a lot of us idolise, but is his life one we’d want?
By Kagure Gacheche 6 years ago
There’s no substitute for sacrifice when it comes to success
Becoming a life coach
Many people get into life coaching because they overcame something and would like to help others survive the struggles they’ve been through or avoid
By Kagure Gacheche 6 years ago
Becoming a life coach
Five ways to be smarter about your money
There are two ways to build your wealth: earn more cash, or spend less of it. Here’s how to go about things.
By Kagure Gacheche 6 years ago
Five ways to be smarter about your money
So you want to write a business plan?
While you can get free templates online, they’re not always the best option as they may skip over some details you need to cover for your specific...
By Kagure Gacheche 6 years ago
So you want to write a business plan?
Youth entrepreneurship summit in Nairobi
USADF in collaboration with the Citi Foundation and the US Department of State, recently hosted a youth entrepreneurship summit in Nairobi..
By Kagure Gacheche 6 years ago
Youth entrepreneurship summit in Nairobi
So you want to go into mushroom farming?
Under the right conditions, you can quickly turn an investment of Sh500 into Sh8,000
By Kagure Gacheche 6 years ago
So you want to go into mushroom farming?
The promise of Warren Buffet’s 20-slot rule
Warren Buffet is considered one of the most successful investors in the world.
By Kagure Gacheche 7 years ago
The promise of Warren Buffet’s 20-slot rule
The firm using the sun to keep farm produce fresh
About 40 per cent of what African farmers produce in their farms is lost before it gets to consumers’ plates.
By Kagure Gacheche 7 years ago
The firm using the sun to keep farm produce fresh
Lamu’s charm that keeps tourists coming back
Kenya has plenty of towns set in landscapes of incredible beauty – but nothing combines history, architecture and heritage quite like Old Town
By Kagure Gacheche 7 years ago
Lamu’s charm that keeps tourists coming back
The company bringing coffee waste to the dinner table
Every year, billions of kilogrammes of coffee cherry fruit, a by-product of coffee production, are being discarded.
By Kagure Gacheche 7 years ago
The company bringing coffee waste to the dinner table
US billionaire to give thousands of Kenyans free cash for 12 years
The billionaire co-founder of e-Commerce company eBay, Pierre Omidyar, is donating Sh52 million to give 6,000 poor Kenyans a guaranteed income for 12 years. No strings attached.
By Kagure Gacheche 7 years ago
US billionaire to give thousands of Kenyans free cash for 12 years
Lessons for Africa on climate change from pace-setting Nordic nations
Africa is gearing up to host a major United Nations climate change conference in Morocco from November 7. This 22nd Conference of the Parties (COP22) has been dubbed the COP of Action, with delegates' focus set to be trained on making progress on the issues agreed on in Paris last year.
By Kagure Gacheche 8 years ago
Lessons for Africa on climate change from pace-setting Nordic nations
Chamas need to think beyond land when investing
Kenya has an estimated 300,000 chamas that control close to Sh300 billion, a remarkable achievement by any standard.
By Kagure Gacheche 8 years ago
Chamas need to think beyond land when investing
Investors snap up space at Fusion mall
Real estate developer Fusion Capital has sold 49 per cent of residential units at the Meru property it has invited the public to invest in.
By Kagure Gacheche 8 years ago
Investors snap up space at Fusion mall
LG and Bryan Berg have set new world record for tallest house of cards
More incredible is that the record-breaking 3.3-metre tall structure was built atop an LG Centum washing machine while it was spinning at 1,000 rotations per minute.
By Kagure Gacheche 8 years ago
LG and Bryan Berg have set new world record for tallest house of cards
100 years on, ghosts of past policies haunt Barclays
The UK lender last week announced it would be selling its majority stake in its African operations, which include a unit in Kenya.
By Jevans Nyabiage and Kagure Gacheche 8 years ago
100 years on, ghosts of past policies haunt Barclays
Treasury tests market with Sh25 billion long-term bond
The National Treasury has returned to borrowing long-term from the domestic financial markets in a stamp of confidence that interest rates may have finally stabilised.
By Kagure Gacheche 8 years ago
Treasury tests market with Sh25 billion long-term bond
Relief as Imperial Bank depositors start receiving funds
The Kenya Deposit Insurance Corporation (KDIC) has started making payments to depositors of the troubled Imperial Bank through Kenya Commercial Bank and Diamond Trust Bank.
By Kagure Gacheche 8 years ago
Relief as Imperial Bank depositors start receiving funds
Movers and shakers in the money market
Up just three per cent year to date, the NASI shed a further 2.2 per cent last week. Also declining for the second week in a row, the NSE 20 Index was down 1.8 per cent (4.5 per cent shy of 2014’s low of 4,764.11 points).
By Kagure Gacheche 9 years ago
Movers and shakers in the money market
Waiguru: We've covered so much ground in two years
The Standard’s Kagure Gacheche interviewed Devolution and Planning Cabinet Secretary Anne Waiguru on devolution process and the teething challenges that remain two years later.
By Kagure Gacheche 9 years ago
Waiguru: We've covered so much ground in two years
NSE: Movers and shakers
The NSE 20 index declined 0.6 per cent last week, touching a 2015 low of 5,078.74 points within the week. The NASI was up 2.1 per cent (+6.3 per cent year to date [YTD]), riding on Safaricom (+22.4 per cent YTD) and KCB’s (+12.3 per cent YTD) performance.
By Kagure Gacheche 9 years ago
NSE: Movers and shakers
Advertising: Y&R returns to Kenya
Y&R Advertising, one of the world’s largest agency networks, has returned to Kenya in partnership with local agency Creative Edge to form Creative Y&R.
By Kagure Gacheche 9 years ago
Advertising: Y&R returns to Kenya
State firms that have guzzled taxpayer cash
When the Government sold Telkom Kenya to the French in December 2007, the main objective was to stop the perpetual pumping of taxpayers’ money into what had evolved into an inefficient monolith.
By Kagure Gacheche 9 years ago
State firms that have guzzled taxpayer cash
Report: PwC outlines key real estate trends
Global megatrends, such as rapid urbanisation and demographic changes, will drive growth in the real estate industry across Africa over the next five years, according to audit firm PwC.
By Kagure Gacheche 9 years ago
Report: PwC outlines key real estate trends
Award: Centum boss gets leadership nod
Centum Investment Company’s Corporate Affairs Director and Group Company Secretary, Fred Murimi, has been selected among 23 of Africa’s young leaders with the highest potential to take part in the African Leadership Institute’s (AFLI) Tutu Leadership Fellowship.
By Kagure Gacheche 9 years ago
Award: Centum boss gets leadership nod
Getting investors: It’s not just about money
MY TIP IS: Pick investors for your business wisely. Speaking from experience, getting financing from the wrong sort of person or business can destroy a dream you have worked hard to build.
By Kagure Gacheche 9 years ago
Getting investors: It’s not just about money
Finding the courage to fight crippling fear
MY TIP FOR entrepreneurs is: Befriend fear. It may sound ridiculous on the surface of it, but those of you in business will immediately relate with the sentiment. Fear is a constant companion in the entrepreneurial journey. You’re afraid of failure, proving right the people who doubted your idea, taking a risk that sinks you, letting a great opportunity pass you by, and the list goes on. And by the way, success does not stop the fear; in my experience, it magnifies it.
By Kagure Gacheche 9 years ago
Finding the courage to fight crippling fear
The technology helping dairy farmers grow feed in just 7 days, without soil
In 2003, Peter Chege had an epiphany: he could easily do what his employer was doing and play his part in creating jobs in the economy.
By Kagure Gacheche 9 years ago
The technology helping dairy farmers grow feed in just 7 days, without soil
Biz tips
My tip for entrepreneurs is: Don’t feel you have to reinvent the wheel.
By Kagure Gacheche 9 years ago
Biz tips
St John Kenya Appoints CEO
St John Kenya has appointed Joseph Wang’endo as the new CEO. He joins St John Kenya from Bloodlink Foundation, where he was executive director and founder.
By Kagure Gacheche 9 years ago
St John Kenya Appoints CEO
Kenya saves Sh9 billion in three months with geothermal switch on
Kenya has saved about Sh9 billion in three months since the Kenya Electricity Generating Company (KenGen) added power to the national electricity grid.
By Kagure Gacheche 10 years ago
Kenya saves Sh9 billion in three months with geothermal switch on
Android, Windows to add ‘kill switch’ to curb phone theft
Google and Microsoft will add a “kill-switch” feature to their Android and Windows phone operating systems.
By Kagure Gacheche 10 years ago
Android, Windows to add ‘kill switch’ to curb phone theft
Understanding the NSSF Act: Costs and consequences
With the new NSSF Act, workers will have to give the State-run fund more money from June, but it’s not all bad news
By Kagure Gacheche and Emmanuel Were 10 years ago
Understanding the NSSF Act: Costs and consequences
Mobile money edges out plastic in battle to rule cash-free services
Richard Wafula knew about the temptation to spend more money than he had, but felt the convenience of being able to make payments without carrying money outweighed the risks.
By Nicholas Waitathu and Kagure Gacheche 10 years ago
Mobile money edges out plastic in battle to rule cash-free services
Psychology of shopping: The why behind the buy
There is a reason January blues exist: we let loose in December, impulsively give in to holiday sales and spend money like we have no bills the following month.
By Kagure Gacheche 10 years ago
Psychology of shopping: The why behind the buy
The martial arts expert who found fortune in security
In Form Two, William Ololo saw a group of people being taught karate, and he was impressed by what the coach could do. This sparked a fascination with the martial arts, that naturally led him into the security sector.
By BY KAGURE GACHECHE 11 years ago
The martial arts expert who found fortune in security
The martial arts expert who found fortune in security
In Form Two, William Ololo saw a group of people being taught karate, and he was impressed by what the coach could do. This sparked a fascination with the martial arts, that naturally led him into the security sector.
By BY KAGURE GACHECHE 11 years ago
The martial arts expert who found fortune in security
Attack on Westgate exposes economy’s Achilles’ heel
Kenya’s global competitiveness may be up, but its ‘worrisome’ security continues to deter greater foreign investor interest
By By EMMANUEL WERE and KAGURE GACHECHE 11 years ago
Attack on Westgate exposes economy’s Achilles’ heel
Why hashtags matter to businesses
This week, social media was blazing with reports that a customer at the Nairobi-based Art Caffe restaurant had been discriminated against and arrested.
By By Kagure gacheche and agencies 11 years ago
Why hashtags matter to businesses
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