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Building multimillion-shilling food testing firm without loans

Nairobi, March 2 -- How many months or years does it take an entrepreneur to raise funds? When Dominic Mureithi founded Polucon, a testing, inspection and verification company, it took seven years. ... Read More


High-growth lessons from agritech start-up founder

Nairobi, Feb. 23 -- If there are two lessons that Srinadh Kotturu, the former general manager at Techno Brain, one of the largest IT solutions companies in Africa, has learned as an entrepreneur are f... Read More


Why Jumia co-founder is betting on Kenyan kiosk goods platform

Nairobi, Feb. 16 -- When he left Jumia, an e-commerce company that he co-founded, Raphael Afaedor, picked several lessons that would help him grow his new enterprise, Kyosk. First, how to gain the tr... Read More


Why Jumia co-founder is betting on Kenya piloted kiosks platform

Nairobi, Feb. 16 -- When he left Jumia, an e-commerce company that he co-founded, Raphael Afaedor, picked several lessons that would help him grow his new enterprise, Kyosk. First, how to gain the tr... Read More


Water treatment firm quenches thirst in Kenya's arid, rural areas

Nairobi, Feb. 2 -- If there is one mistake that shaped the entrepreneurial journey of Samuel Kinyanjui, a 39-year-old mechanical engineer who runs a solar water treatment company, it is engaging in de... Read More


Aggregation: Mathematician finds formula for profitable fish value chain

Nairobi, Jan. 26 -- Dave Okech studied Mathematics and Statistics at the university but his heart was in the fish industry. He started small, as a fish farmer, then saw a business opportunity in the i... Read More


Sam cuts cost of British curriculum with Kidato

Nairobi, Jan. 12 -- When Sam Gichuru decided to home-school his children, he wanted to ensure they got the best education while spending more time with them. But he soon realised that he was not gett... Read More