Usually saying you ‘learned from the best’ is hyperbole, but not for Jael Amara, Founder and CEO of Consumer Options Ltd. The Catholic University of Milan graduate started her career at an international research company during the times when the field was not too crowded and only two local research companies existed in the market. After four years in the …

Esther Wangui Ndegwa graduated from university with a bachelor’s degree neatly tucked under her arm. She had done a Bachelor’s of commerce program majoring in finance, and she was going to be a finance manager in some company, or so she thought. Little had she anticipated the challenges of finding a job. Ten interviews later, Esther had not landed on …

Recently I read a tweet from one of my business icons: “A new business is a lot like a baby turtle.” He goes on to explain that only one out of every one thousand turtles is strong to survive out of their nests. The lurking danger for baby turtles includes crabs, birds and the big fish. For a business however: …