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Profile: Meet John Muiruri, App developer with Intel

Last week I was privileged to have a talk with John Muiruri, one of the top Apps developers in Kenya. Here is how the talk went. Odipo: If I were to…

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Kenya is a ripe market for old ideas

You have an old idea? Pitch it to Kenya. Dear reader, entrepreneur, policy maker and academician, the article by XN Iraki on Why Innovation lag is a drain on economy posted on…

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BRCK Raises $.1.2 Million and Why Kenyan Engineers Need To Do More

When you talk about Kenyan tech, all you think about is Mobile apps, the hubs and the already failed Konza city. Within the hubs, techies and developers work on mobile…

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Kenya on the lead in DEMO Africa’s 40 Best Tech Start-ups.

Demo Africa has released the top forty list of startups received that have qualified to launch their product on the Demo Africa stage scheduled to take place between September22nd and…

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Weza Tele- On The Other Side of The Hype Cycles

A mid the fast spreading myth that Kenyan start-ups are over hyped but less of substance, I have taken it upon myself to dispel this baseless dangerous notion. In the…

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Weza Tele Announces Plan To Provide Enterprise Applications to SMEs

Weza Tele has announced a partnership with Odoo to provide enterprise applications to SMEs .  The partnership has enabled Weza Tele to integrate its mobility and supply chain visibility tool,…

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DEMO Africa extends application deadline to June 22.

DEMO Africa has extended its application deadline to June 22nd from the earlier set date, June 15th giving start-ups more time to meet the Demo Africa application expectations. This comes…

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25 Exceptional Startups to Compete in PIVOT East 2014 Competition

PIVOT East 2014 pitching conference to be held 24th-25th June in Nairobi Kenya will have 25 exceptional mobile startups from across the region that will compete to win market recognition…

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Lessons That Start-ups Can Learn From The Nairobi News Shut Down

I always see start-ups trembling whenever a big company like Safaricom or Nation Media Group launch a product within the area which they operate in. Take for example start-up X…

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88mph Startups meet with Investors.

Seed investor and accelerator 88mph operating in Nairobi, Cape Town and Lagos, is hosting  this year’s Cape Town Investor Day at Crossley and webb’s vintage car showroom. This comes after…

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The Nailab First Ever Start-up Crowdfunding Boot Camp

The Nailab in partnership with 1%Club, a Netherlands based crowdfunding venture, and Accenture  held a 2 day start-up crowd funding boot camp. The boot camp which brought together a total…

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DEMO Africa 2014 To Be Held in Lagos, Nigeria

This year the third edition of annual DEMO Africa will be held between 22nd and 26th September 2014 in Lagos, Nigeria. The series of events will be hosted in collaboration…

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Not too late to apply for mobile impact ventures program by m:lab

Have you applied for the m:lab mobile impact ventures program? If you have not then you are late but not too late. But first what is impact venture program? According…

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Dear Kenyan Start-ups, Advertising is Not the Only Business Model

Every year and every month I get fascinated with a certain aspect of technology. My current obsession is Mobile and the grand convergence. I got the clear picture about it…

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Best travel apps to plan your trip

Thanks to the smart phone, planning your trip and ensuring your stay is without any major incident is far easier due to the number of apps available. Here are our…

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Africa: A Hot Bed For Web Content Millionaires

Guest Post by Alex Muriu Just 7 years ago, Web content platforms such as Nigeria’s irokoTV, South Africa’s YuppieChef and Kenya’s Cheki did not exist. As we speak, they are…

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MSE Authority to train entrepreneurs on Innovation

There are roughly 1,200 firms that have so far registered for funding under Micro and Small Enterprises Authority (MSE Authority), but for some reason the firms are not performing as…

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Misleading Figures By Start-ups-Why Tech Writers Need To Do More

X: What do you do?  (Asking the question but expect to hear that you work for Safaricom, EABL, P&G, NMG and others) Y: I do business, I run a tech…

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CFC bank partners with Safaricom to launch real time mobile payments for SMEs

CFC bank in conjunction with leading mobile company Safaricom has rolled out an electronic payments service that will provide its Business Banking and SME clients with the ability to accept…

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Zack Mukewa Joins Nailab Incubation Team

It is the year of makeover and Nailab has not be left out.  Under the new direction, Nailab’s main aim is to raise the profile of the entrepreneurs under its…

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8 Resolutions for every SME in 2014

It is estimated that there are 7.5 million small and medium enterprises in Kenya. The sectors contribution to gross domestic product (GDP) has increased from 13.8 percent in 1993 to…

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There is need for legislation to protect startups

Unemployed youth have been advised, by mockers and policy makers alike, to start own businesses in order to create jobs themselves. When the youth complain that businesses are hard to…

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Great startup lesson from Twitter IPO

On Thursday 7th 2013 Twitter went public, collecting over $1.8 billion from the 70 million shares it had on offer. When the shares went to the stock market, the shares…

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DUMA: Getting jobs through networking now automated

Are you a fresh graduate, someone planning to quit the current job or just recently fired? Are you one of those who have sent hundreds to thousands of applications to…

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Tips on how to start unique ventures

Is it not challenging and at times embarrassing when “kids” start really obvious ideas that make them millions? Listen to this news: “Alex Mativo,19, and  a student at the University…

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M-Farm Gets Ksh.20 Million from M-Pesa Foundation to pilot the Farm Agent and Quality Control Model

Mpesa Foundation….well, I had no idea about this but it is good that it is already doing some good work out there. So M-Pesa Foundation has entered into a partnership…

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Women in Enterprise Award Launched By The Purple Network

The Purple Network recently launched the inaugural Women in Enterprise Award dubbed the ‘She.BusinessAward’ to recognize and celebrate women who have built successful businesses. This is the first award that…

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Lessons from Nokia and Blackberry that startups should learn

The list of market leading companies that simply disappear into oblivion is quite disturbing. From Kodak, Research in Motion, Friendster, Netscape, Motorola, Newsweek and latest and most disturbing is the…

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Should counties support local SMEs?

Following an article by Macharia Kamau in The Standard about Small ICT firms fearing that they may lose out in county contracts for providing ICT services for management of revenue…

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Mombasa Hackathon By Nailab- Incubation without borders

The Nailab for the first time this weekend will host Mombasa Hackathon with the aim of building a new strong tech community in the coastal region. The event dubbed “Incubation…

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