PRIME The USIU dropout who traded the lecture hall for his father’s shop and built a watch empire Leveraging online marketing, Hassanali settled on selling watches online, setting up Saa Zone – a low-budget watch shop.
PRIME She quit a 30-year banking career to make leather bags Bags sell for Sh10,000 to Sh20,000, wallets and belts for Sh4,000 to Sh6,000, and duffle bags for Sh25,000 to Sh35,000.
PRIME Kenyan start-ups build AI powered tourism ventures The founders plan to explore paid subscriptions for more advanced AI features, such as personalised itineraries and help with bookings.
PRIME How you beat giants without copying them Strange thing is, more the lower tier firms compete, the more they look the same.
PRIME How a farmer breeds Saanen goats that fetch Sh110,000 each Mr Juma says a good breeding buck is made in its first six months, when kids need enough time to suckle for the first three months before a gradual move to a balanced growing diet.
PRIME How to tell effort from effectiveness and reward each Prolific management researchers Chad Van Iddekinge, John Arnold, Herman Aguinis, Jonas Lang, and Filip Lievens published an often cited and highly impactful study that has really changed the...
PRIME Tailors cash in as Kenyans embrace bespoke suits Rather than having one tailor handle every stage, SAO uses specialists for components such as trousers and jackets.
PRIME Confidence business: The entrepreneur filling a gap for breast cancer survivors The business specialises in shapewear, pyjamas and post-surgical garments, but breast prostheses introduced her to a different set of needs.
PRIME Good decisions, bad luck: Why the most effective managers think in bets While managers can preach, coach and cajole staff to be different, to be critical thinkers, or innovative, real change starts when the words and pictures inside our heads align with a compelling...
PRIME How Kenyan craftsmanship built a global brand The horn used to make the jewellery is sourced from local abattoirs and at times, from Uganda.
PRIME Kenya should tax AI agents just as it does human employees When companies switch to AI agents to complete work tasks and terminate their human staff, do those companies still have to render PAYE to KRA for the AI agents' work?
PRIME Influencer marketing shifts from followers to measurable returns As influencer marketing has matured, brands are asking harder questions about what happens after the likes, views and comments fade from social media feeds.
PRIME How tout turned Sh1,000 daily savings into multimillion assets His most significant investment so far is a commercial-residential building that he says he constructed from his earnings as a tout.
PRIME Steps to fixing the one thing holding your business back Every complex system has at least one limiting factor known as a bottleneck or constraint that restricts its ability to reach its highest goal.
PRIME Aspirational marketing is on the rise, here’s why For years, companies relied on mass advertising and market visibility to drive growth. That logic is weakening.
PRIME Music executive turns hits into a Sh156 million royalties business The biggest challenge is that artistes do not understand how the digital music economy works.
PRIME The Kenyans making money from chasing waterfalls Karori Tours organises hiking trips during the week and at weekends for solo adventurers, groups and corporate teams, and clients can book private tours on any day.
PRIME What it costs a business to fully comply in Kenya A 2026 study by research firm Semantic Scholar on formalising informal trade estimates about 10.4 million MSMEs, of which roughly 8.5 million operate informally.
PRIME How would Albert Einstein solve your business problem? Changing your business perspective is an absolute requirement. Einstein’s relativity thinking teaches that observation depends partly on the observer's frame of reference.
PRIME How a two-goats gift grew into 3,000-head livestock enterprise The farm runs two parallel business models, and the logistics behind each are deliberately different.
PRIME Balance paradox: Smart businesses are like riding a bicycle Markets evolve, technology changes and customer expectations shift. The writing is on the wall for those who are doing things ‘the way we have always done them’.
PRIME East Africa must future-proof its citizens against AI species Thinkers and theorists now are not merely hinting at societal collapse like what happened to Bronze Age civilisations 1,200 years ago, but actual full human extinction altogether.
PRIME How three Kenyans turned hustles into Dubai businesses Seven years into the tourism business, Japhet is now eyeing a Mombasa branch and an expansion into Qatar.
PRIME Have you tried solving your business problem backward? Getting to the truth of a business obstacle may involve realising the problem is not the problem. Managers often jump on and define a problem too quickly.
PRIME Kenyans in diaspora spend a fortune to ship curtains from home Curtain sellers in Nairobi say overseas clients from Canada, the United States, Australia and the United Kingdom are becoming a steady part of their business.
