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12 Questions to ask when developing your consultancy business plan - Click To Read Article
With the number of jobs dwindling in the formal sector, and the emergence of outsourcing, many professionals are finding that using their expertise as a consultant is the way to go. Being a consultant offers several benefits: you are your own boss, you can set your hours as well as the clients you offer your services to.

KopiBure - An Innovative Student Advertising Business - Click To Read Article
KopiBure (the name is swahili for free copies) is an advertising company that deals with advertising in Universities, Colleges and other tertiary institutions of learning in Kenya.

Testing a Business Venture's Viability - Click To Read Article
Pre start-up research is vital to any venture. If possible, the best way to learn about your prospective business is to work for someone else in that industry before venturing out on your own. This will make you more aware of the challenges you can expect to face in your venture. It will also give you the opportunity of getting some form of on the job training so you can manage your venture effectively. Background research in the industry will give you an indication of what to expect in terms of earnings and expenses.

Factoring: an alternative way to finance your business - Click To Read Article
Commonly businesses have to extend credit to their customers which in turn become accounts receivable in their cash flow. Factoring bridges this credit gap by enabling a business to get a percentage of their accounts receivable instead of having to wait the 30, 60 or 90 days indicated on their invoice.

Profile: HALCHA Youth & Community Development organization - Click To Read Article
HALCHA Youth and Community Development organization is based in Garbatulla, a small town in northern Kenya where the populace are faced with poor living standards, low literacy levels, unemployment, unpredictable weather patterns that adversely impact on food security.

How entrepreneurs stay motivated - Click To Read Article
After the initial excitement of the brain wave that will change the world and revolutionize society has long ended; and the entrepreneur sets to the task of actually making their vision happen, sometimes set backs or sheer fatigue sets in. Then the visionary who was once so elated over their business idea starts to view it as work.

Entrepreneur Profile: Sospeter Amenya - Click To Read Article
Sospeter Amenya of BenCro Transition Designs is a Kenyan social entrepreneur whose work mainly involves designing websites and developing custom software to help in various aspects that are aimed at creating more opportunities for the impoverished society. We at the Youth Interactive Portal for Enterprise (YIPE) recently got a chance to interview him regarding the importance of determination to venture into enterprise as well as his future aspirations.

East African entrepreneurs need a level playing field in the new Common Market - Click To Read Article
The regional integration of the East Africa community is finally here. With the promise of trade barriers falling, for East African entrepreneurs this bodes well in a common market of 130 million people.

When The Brewing Business Turns Deadly - Click To Read Article
If Kenya's historic Alcoholic Drinks Control Bill 2009 receives presidential assent, this will mean that brewers of such liquor will have to face stringent quality standards and inspections. However with the current enforcement agencies so far being unable to cope in preventing loss of life and blindness, it seems that more has to be done to ensure that the vendors lacing the brews with dangerous substances are stopped.

Sage Kenya: Promoting Entrepreneurship Where it Matters the Most - Click To Read Article
SAGE Kenya is a country chapter of the Students for the Advancement of Global Entrepreneurship, a global community of teenage entrepreneurs sharing a common purpose. Started in 2009, Sage Kenya’s mission is to help create the next generation of entrepreneurial leaders whose innovations and social enterprises address the world’s major unmet needs.

Doing Business but Suffering in Silence - Click To Read Article
Women entrepreneurs fall victim in part to economic abuse due to familial socialization from the time of birth. From a tender age, socialization which is the process of inheriting norms, customs and ideologies differentiates girls from boys. As boys grow up, they learn to be the head of their future homes as well as being the main (if not only) breadwinners. Girls in turn are socialized to be the home makers and caregivers.

Missing files and Tender Entrepreneur Brokers - Click To Read Article
It has now become recognised that an important catalyst to business growth is enabling entrepreneurs to compete on the public procurement market. And it is encouraging that young entrepreneurs are taking on the bottlenecks in the public sector, and developing new applications that equalize information asymmetries and promote transparency whilst combating public sector corruption.

Toxic Business: Africa’s Scavenger Entrepreneurs - Click To Read Article
It’s a common site in most African cities – waste dumping sites where hundreds of scavengers search daily for pieces of scrap metal, plastics and other waste materials to sell for a profit. These scavenger entrepreneurs though are risking their lives in search of money for survival. In these dumps, there are toxic wastes that can be fatal.

The Secret to Less Anxiety over Business Cash Flow - Click To Read Article
To reap any significant earnings from your enterprise, you need to plan your business spending and a budget is crucial to business success.





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