Novice stumbles on niche market with family spices

Stephen Machua is the founder of Piquant Spices, a spices manufacturing startup. FILE PHOTO | POOL

Stephen Machua's entrepreneurial journey started with a costly failure, but one that has turned out to be his biggest business lesson.

He sank Sh250,000 of grant money into tomato farming. He, together with his partners had hoped that the investment would return not less than Sh1.2 million.

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