How Small Businesses Can Now Run Like Big Companies
James Ngugi on how affordable, simple tools let a small business run with the discipline of a large company, from tracking sales and paying staff to selling on credit and unlocking finance.
What Youth Leadership Actually Looks Like: Lessons from Coaching Volleyball and Building Tech
From chairing a volleyball team to building technology companies, James Ngugi reflects on what youth leadership means beyond hashtags and conferences.
Building Across Borders: Lessons from Scaling Technology to 10+ African Countries
James Ngugi shares practical lessons from scaling HimaHR across Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania, Somalia, Somaliland, Djibouti and beyond, and what it takes to build Pan-African technology.
Why Kenya’s 7 Million SMEs Are the Key to Economic Transformation
Kenya’s small and medium enterprises employ over 15 million people. James Ngugi explains why empowering SMEs with technology is the fastest path to economic transformation.
Start at home, then build for the continent
Most conversations about Kenya’s economy happen at one end or the other. Either we talk about the big institutions, the banks, the payrolls, the systems that move money at scale, or we talk about the mama mboga and the duka on the corner. Rarely do we talk about both in the same breath. I’ve spent […]