Jinsi ya kuokoa biashara yako isife kipindi hiki cha COVID-19
Katika kipindi hiki cha COVID-19, mambo mengi yamebadilika sana. Dunia haipo sawa tena kama zamani. Kila kitu kimekuwa tofauti, mienendo…
Being a bedroom entrepreneur
A bedroom entrepreneur is someone who runs an online business out of the comfort of their home.
Tech students compete in a global innovation challenge
Youth group Agristars wins Microsoft software competition with a tool that analyzes soil.
10 East Africans shortlisted for the Anzisha Prize, SA-bound
25 entrepreneurs across Africa have been shortlisted for the Anzisha Prize. 10 of them are East African.
GrowthHub’s 2013 accelerator program
In this post, we tell you about two exciting programs from the Growth Hub that aim to support entrepreneurs with their startups. Earliest deadline is July 15.
Young people doing it big in Tanzania: Wabantu Juice Company on the rise to create youth employment
They are setting a new trend of thinking, creating jobs for themselves and for others, and are living proof that we can make it if we try.
Acumen Fund: East Africa Fellows Program
In its second year running, the East Africa Fellows Program will be accepting applications until 5th August 2012.
Presentation skills for entrepreneurs
This article describes the essential skills an entrepreneur should demonstrate whilst participating in presentations targeting venture capitalists and Business Plan competitions.
Five questions with store owner Rizwan Janmohamed
Rizwan is an owner of a curious and boutiques store in Stone Town, Zanzibar. We asked him five questions about how he runs his business and advice he would give to other fellow young entrepreneurs.
Report: Doing business in East Africa
Doing Business, an initiative formed by the World Bank and the International Finance Corporation, has released its 2011 survey of doing business in the East African Community.
Youth to Youth Fund 2011
The Youth to Youth Fund, facilitated by the Youth Entrepreneurship Facility, is now accepting business proposals from young entrepreneurs for 2011.
Barber wins millions in business competition
Ruka Juu na Fema TV Talk Show – a program run by Femina HIP – announces winners of a recent business plan competition.
Social Innovation: What is it?
What is social innovation, and why does it matter?
Insuring rural businesses
A new health and agro-business microinsurance scheme is going to be established in Tanzania. How does this help, and what else can be considered?
Echoing Green fellowship deadline approaching
The first phase of the Echoing Green fellowship is due soon. Successful applicants of the fellowship earn investment for and technical assistance in their ideas.
The BiD Network: Supporting Tanzanian Entrepreneurs
By connecting investors with entrepreneurs, the BiD Network serves to create more than just support for social entrepreneurship ideas, but entire communities based on it.
Uranium in Tanzania: Resource or curse?
Will uranium mining be a natural resource or curse to Tanzania?
Remember the airport shuttle idea?
An airport shuttle service is already working in Dar.
Local startups get a boost
An angel investment fund and business incubator based in San Francisco is working with the government to setup a local incubator in Dar es Salaam.
Getting off the bench
The importance and urgency of Public-Private Partnerships in the East African Community.
Social enterprise resources
Some helpful resources for those of you who are thinking about starting up your own social enterprise.
Media Relations: Press Releases and Targeting Reporters
Your social enterprise has a cool event or story it wants to share with the world. Perhaps the first conference…
Media Relations 101 – Getting media coverage
I work for a strategic communications firm that caters to a strictly non-profit clientele; as such, I have had to…
Can We Predict the Future?
I just completed a course titled “Managing Global Political Risk,” which focused on the intersection between business and politics and…
Peer2Peer Tutor, na sisi Je?
Leo nitaendelea na pale nilipoishia na ile changamoto ya kwanini na sisi tusianzishe Khan Academy zetu. Jambo la elimu na…
Kenyan youth work with UBC business school
The Sauder School of Business at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada is working with East African youth…
Kirubi from Capital FM: Think like an entrepreneur
Chris Kirubi, a blogger for Kenyan-based Capital FM, encourages youth to seek out entrepreneurial opportunities and self employment in East…
Youth to Youth Fund
The Youth Employment Network (YEN), a product of a partnership between the International Labor Organization, the World Bank and the…
The Value of ‘Microtrends’
Our society is riddled with growing trends that we overlook daily, focusing on larger trends such as Facebook or Twitter….
Tanzania to host Young Global Leaders summit in May 2010
Young Global Leaders (YGL) – a branch of the World Economic Forum – will hold is seventh annual summit in…