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CEO at Symbiotic | Opportunity Scout at Gruppo Potente, in pursuit of opportunities without regard to resources currently controlled #WhatIsNext #AfricaRising

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Sky.Garden’s take on digital commerce

December 21, 2017 by Mbugua Njihia Leave a Comment

As more consumers become digitally literate and money takes to the mobile medium, we see players continue to try their hand at commerce hoping to hit balanced and profitable disintermediation at scale. We know of the popular, deeply capitalized but high burn rate platforms that are still trying to find their profit footing and others … [Read more…]

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Posted in: Business, Technology Tagged: e-commerce, Jumia, Katapult, Last Mile, m-commerce, Marketplace, Masoko, Platform Thinking, Sky.Garden, SME

My 3 Asks of Jack Ma as UNCTAD Special Adviser for Young Entrepreneurs and Small Business

July 20, 2017 by Mbugua Njihia 4 Comments
Ma Yun, popularly known as Jack Ma - Founder and Executive Chairman of Alibaba Group and UNCTAD Special Adviser for Young Entrepreneurs and Small Business

While his name may not resonate deeply with most Kenyan’s whose primary daily digital interactions are on Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram, properties owned by Mark Zuckerberg where they as free users are the product; Ma Yun, popularly known as Jack Ma, one of the world’s wealthiest men with a net worth north of $34 billion, … [Read more…]

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Posted in: Business, Technology Tagged: #JackMaInKenya, 1688.com, Ali Express, Alibaba Cloud, Alipay, ANT, ANT Financial Services Group, Beijing Wonderful Investments, Best Investment Corporation, Bloomberg, Cainiao Network, Central Huijin Investment, Chengdong Investment Corporation, China Investment Corporation, China Investment Corporation International Co, Chiswick Park in West London, CIC International (Hong Kong) Co, Domestic Trade Financing Products, Fixed Assets Support Financing, Flourish Investment Corporation, Forbes, Fullbloom Investment Corporation, Jack Ma, Juhuasuan, Land Breeze Ii S.À-R.L., Ma Yun, Manufacturing, Merging and Acquiring Loans, Mukhisa Kituyi, Real Estate Development Loans, SCE CAPITAL Co, SME, Special Financing Products, Stable Investment Corporation, Taobao, Tmall.com, UNCTAD, United Nations Development Programme, venture capital, Yu’e Bao

Meeting SME capital needs using public key infrastructure and distributed ledgers

June 22, 2016 by Mbugua Njihia Leave a Comment

Cash flow is the lifeblood of any business and there is nothing as crippling for an entrepreneur, especially so if you are lumped into the small and medium enterprise segment as being invoice rich but cash poor. For over 750,000 SME’s in Kenya the gap between service or product fulfillment and payday presents the biggest … [Read more…]

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Posted in: Business, Technology Tagged: Block chain, Cash flow, distributed ledger, Fintech, pki, Public Key Infrastructure, small and medium business, small and medium enterprises, SMB, SME, trust

Kenya should target niche products in the AGOA scheme

April 4, 2016 by Phyllis Wakiaga Leave a Comment

Did you know that you can export live chicken and goats duty free to the US under the African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) scheme? A quick examination of the list of products that can be exported to the United States (US) under AGOA, shows a variety of food products such as vegetables, fruits, fruit … [Read more…]

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Posted in: Business, Manufacturing, Trade Tagged: African Growth and Opportunity Act, AGOA, agro-processing, Automotive, Building Products, cold chain, commodities, commodity bridge, Construction, Consumer Goods, e-commerce, Energy, Environmental Industries, Export Trading, Financial services, Foreign Direct Investment, Foreign Trade Zones, General Export Assistance, Green, Guppo Potente, Health, Information and Telecom, Intellectual Property Rights, KAM, Kenya Industrial transformation Programme, Local Export Assistance, logistics, Machinery, Metals, National Export Initiative, phytosanitary standards, Service Industries, SMB, SME, speciality foods, Standards, Steel, Tariffs, Textiles and Apparel, Trade Agreements, Trade Barriers, Trade Events, Trade Policy, Trade Remedies, Travel and Tourism

Public Participation in the Budget Making Process must be encouraged

March 2, 2016 by Phyllis Wakiaga Leave a Comment

The budget making process in one of the ways available for citizens to participate in the governance of this country. Recently, Kenya Association of Manufacturers (KAM) in conjunction with the International Budget Partnership (IBP) held a Budget forum to discuss the Budget Policy Statement (BPS) and debt management strategy for fiscal years 2016/2017.  The aim … [Read more…]

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Posted in: Business, Manufacturing, Trade Tagged: Budget Policy Statement, IBP, industrial parks, International Budget Partnership, KAM, Kenya Association of Manufacturers, Kenya Industrialization Transformation programme., SME, SMEs, Special Economic Zones, vision 2030
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