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Articles By: Steve Biko

Profitability Is Becoming the Founder’s Most Persuasive Pitch

An investor can admire a growth curve and still decline to finance it. When external money is uncertain or expensive,

Entrepreneur's Corner

· Nov 11, 2026
The Business Has Orders but the Bank Wants a Title Deed

An entrepreneur can know exactly how to make money and still fail to satisfy a lender’s definition of an acceptable

Entrepreneur's Corner

· Nov 7, 2026
A Tender Portal Is Not a Cure for Corruption Unless the Public Can See Inside

Government digitalisation is often sold as a solution in itself: turn forms into screens, add a portal, declare victory. Kenya

Entrepreneur's Corner

· Nov 5, 2026
When the State Controls Your Invoice, Who Protects Your Livelihood?

There is a form of repression that requires neither tear gas nor prison gates. It needs no midnight arrest, no

Pinned Category

· Oct 28, 2026
When Shares Fall, Opportunity Can Rise: How Short Selling Could Change the Nairobi Securities Exchange

For years, the Kenyan investor has known one basic rule: buy a share when the price looks low, hold it,

Market News

· Sep 10, 2026
Beyond the Money Market Fund: Why Kenya’s Next Big Investment Conversation Is About Special Funds — and Mansa X

Not every fund is built for the same investor, the same risk, or the same opportunity. As Kenyans search for

Entrepreneur's Corner

· Sep 10, 2026
Edwin Sifuna, The Man, The Myth, The Beast, The Stereotype Breaker

There are moments in a nation’s life when one person becomes larger than his own biography. He becomes a vessel

Government and Policy

· Aug 1, 2026
Why The Hardest Part Of Investing Is Not Finding The Perfect Asset, But Becoming The Person Who Can Keep Building Capital Through Every Milestone

Investing is a series of firsts. The first time you buy a share, a Treasury bond, a money-market fund, a

Entrepreneur's Corner

· Jul 5, 2026
Why Elon Musk’s Ad Astra Experiment Should Terrify Kenya Into Rethinking Education Before AI, Automation and a New Economy Leave Our Children Behind

Elon Musk’s children did not simply leave a normal school. They became part of a private experiment in what education

Technology

· Jun 5, 2026
Character Is Expensive: The Discipline Entrepreneurs Must Learn Before Wealth Arrives

There is a dangerous illusion that floats quietly through conversations about success: the belief that poverty automatically produces virtue. People

Entrepreneur's Corner

· Feb 8, 2026
A Nation in Silent Mourning: The Exhaustion, Grief, and Stolen Futures Kenyans Scroll Past Every Day

I know I am not the only one who notices the quiet grief Kenyans carry, because it has become part

Government and Policy

· Jan 26, 2026
Saving Money Is Anti-Consumerism: Why Discipline, Not Income, Determines Wealth

Saving money is not a budgeting problem. It is a behavioral problem. Most people do not struggle because they earn

Entrepreneur's Corner

· Dec 15, 2025