Landlord 2.0

I want to be the “Digital Landlord”. I want to own website real estate that I can “rent” to small businesses. This isn’t about owning domain names since that would not work. People would just buy different domain names – they aren’t that important for local businesses. No, this is about owning the building, or […]

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What If The People You Outsource To Are Not As Good As You?

Following yesterday’s post, Outsource Everything, I got a few emails from people who wanted to outsource but were unsure whether anyone could get the job done as well as it needed to be. That’s an understandable reaction and it was something that I fought when we tried to outsource some of our work. Sometimes it […]

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Outsource Everything

One of the things I am a huge fan of is that every Business Owner should outsource everything that they possibly can. I know I’m not breaking any ground with this idea (if you want to read a great book on the power of outsourcing, I strongly recommend Thomas Friedman’s, The World is Flat) but […]

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Making Money Online

Written by guest contributor Jennifer Gorton from Forex Indicators. If you haven’t thought of putting some of your paycheck into a savings account, there is no better time to start then now. Having a savings account will provide a cache of money that is stored away in case of emergencies. The money can also be […]

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Voices of Africa

Voices of Africa is an interesting organisation. I got to learn about them at the iHub during the Nairobi Barcamp, 2010. Basically, they aim to bring ICT to the rural areas of Kenya, mainly by building rural internet Kiosks and supporting other organisations that have similar goals. Through this, they hope to give people in […]

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Barcamp Nairobi 2010

Did you make it? well, you missed quite the event! There was free food, free beer and other freebies but the best thing about Barcamp Nairobi 2010 was the energy. I’m a lover of all things tech so it was very exciting to see so many smart people working on so many different and interesting […]

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Growing A Business Without Money

Thinking up a business idea and launching it is pretty easy, if you ask me. Running the business and growing it is a whole different story. It is where almost all businesses fail at. I’m very much in favour of bootstrapping and I discourage everyone who wants to start a business by borrowing. However, we […]

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