Jan 22
Don’t enjoy cleaning your house, cooking,
or mowing your lawn? How to outsource
boring jobs in five easy steps.
If you haven’t outsourced something like cooking or cleaning yet, and you’re still doing boring drudge work in your everyday life, read on. In one week or less, you will free up 10+ hours of your time every week to do what you love!
My Story
I’m a lazy cook. Anything that takes longer than 15 minutes is longer than my attention span. So I end up cooking a lot of hot dogs and macaroni and cheese.
Since I was recently diagnosed with Celiac disease, I can no longer eat out at many restaurants.
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Jan 20
Shareholders of Safaricom will in future receive shares instead of cash as dividend, if the mobile phone service provider secures the necessary approval.
The Dividend Reinvestment Plan (Drip), which will be optional and a first in the country’s capital market, will cover most of the company’s shareholders with less than 1,000 shares.
Such shareholders, numbering 465,106 as at March 30, 2009, received less than Sh100 as dividend each, because the company paid a dividend of Sh0.10 per share less withholding tax.
“Reinvesting the dividend will be good for us instead of spending Sh45 to send a Sh100 dividend cheque.
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Jan 20
In recent small business news, Congress has commenced what looks to be a year-long debate over new visa legislation that will help immigrants who form startup businesses remain in the United States.
The proposed visa calls for a dramatic overhaul of the immigration system. Currently, immigrants must invest $1 million and create 10 full-time jobs with startup businesses to be eligible. The new system would lower the required investments to as little as $100,000 and no job creation would be necessary for businesses that can generate at least $1 million in revenue.
Experts at YouNoodle – a company that monitors small business start ups – estimates that if 10,000 of these new visas are made available, more than 3,000 additional companies would set up in the U.S.
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Jan 19
Westar Energy Inc. says it has acquired rights for a new wind farm in western Kansas near Spearville.
The company said Tuesday it has reached an agreement with Infinity Wind Power to develop the site for up to 500 megawatts of wind energy. The first phase is expected to be about 200 megawatts and be completed late next year or in 2012.
The project’s timeline depends on how fast new transmission lines are constructed in the western part of the state.
Westar owns or buys power from three other wind farms in Kansas.
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Jan 18
The Kenya Tea Development Agency (KTDA) has suspended buying of green tea leaves during late hours to curb a mass exodus of its farmers to other multi-national tea companies operating in parts of Rift Valley province .
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The move follows protests from small-scale farmers over buying of delivered tea leaves at midnight.
Stormy
A stormy meeting held by shareholders and directors at St Peters Catholic Church hall and chaired by chairman of Chebut tea Factory Mr Joshua Choge, resolved that buying of green tea leaves during night hours be suspended.
Tea farmers led by Mr Ernest Saina and KTDA directors Mr John Korir, John Tega and Joel Rotich, told the meeting that farmers were quitting the company due to midnight purchases.
Most farmers protested about their safety and waste of hours as they wait to sell their produce.
Mr Saina cautioned KTDA against using abusive language on farmers and instead speed up buying of tea.
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