Archive for July, 2009

Angel Financing in Kenya

Darius asked me how the Kenyan scene was in terms of Angel financing. According to Wiki, an Angel Investor is is an affluent individual who provides capital for a business start-up, usually in exchange for convertible debt orownership equity. Well, opportunities for an Angel to invest are boundless, the question is if...

Owning a Business – The Management Model

It is fair to say not all of us are created entrepreneurs. Some (most) of us are better off managing other people’s businesses and the thought of the responsibility and stress in running our own businesses isn’t worth it at all. Other than stocks, how can these people make...

customer care, is it that hard really? (case study)

Pic courtesy of Flickr If you are a mass customer you had better get used to queues and congestion. Whether it is in retail, banking, telephony or travel: you will often be treated no better than cattle. You will stand around in long lines for hours, or hang on...

Consistency is Key

I’m indeed honoured to have the first guest post on here by Kaboro. Enjoy! Kenyan’s are a peculiar lot. This was said by Michael Joseph, CEO Safaricom, and his words have now been (in) famously entered into the annals of Kenya’s favorite statement history. Now, to put it into...