From the category archives:

Investment Ideas

Woes Of A Dream Carrier

December 16, 2009

I hit the send button and sigh deeply.
That’s me emailing the members of an investment club I’ve chaired for the last 3 years (and still continue to chair despite having resigned over a year ago).

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Personal Finance 101

October 21, 2009

Every so often (for most of us at mid month when our cash is out) we will look at our personal finances and wonder, ‘where does it all go?’. We do our annual tax returns, look at the money we took home as net pay, and we can’t account for most of it, and we [...]

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Angel Financing in Kenya

July 31, 2009

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 the investors are available in Kenya.

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Owning a Business – The Management Model

July 28, 2009

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 their money work for them?

There are many [...]

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