Meanwhile away from the "Silicon Savannah" noise, guys are quietly building regional IT businesses and doing big things e.g. Cellulant has impressed me<https://twitter.com/bytebandit/status/322237172604354561/photo/1> . On Thu, Apr 11, 2013 at 4:14 PM, <kictanet-request@lists.kictanet.or.ke>wrote:
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1. Innovationville: Where all the good money making African start ups go to die (Andrea Bohnstedt) 2. Re: Innovationville: Where all the good money making African start ups go to die (Ali Hussein) 3. Re: Innovationville: Where all the good money making African start ups go to die (Agosta Liko) 4. Re: Fwd: Laptops for 2014 class 1 entrants (robert yawe)
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Message: 1 Date: Thu, 11 Apr 2013 15:29:34 +0300 From: Andrea Bohnstedt <andrea.bohnstedt@ratio-magazine.com> To: KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions <kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke> Cc: KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions <kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke> Subject: [kictanet] Innovationville: Where all the good money making African start ups go to die Message-ID: < CAFaobUCR1g4kz3Cre3FpCAf4B6qf5RmOAZGtKx5EmufLXg2zFg@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
Fun read:
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Message: 2 Date: Thu, 11 Apr 2013 15:57:21 +0300 From: Ali Hussein <ali@hussein.me.ke> To: Andrea Bohnstedt <andrea.bohnstedt@ratio-magazine.com> Cc: KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions <kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke> Subject: Re: [kictanet] Innovationville: Where all the good money making African start ups go to die Message-ID: <2E4A336C-BAE2-4C64-95BE-AEFD260C20D7@hussein.me.ke> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
Interesting read Andrea. And of course Africa is no different from most start up environments..there is the hype and then there is the business..both feed on each other..
Thanks for sharing.
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On Apr 11, 2013, at 3:29 PM, Andrea Bohnstedt < andrea.bohnstedt@ratio-magazine.com> wrote:
Fun read:
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