@Adam, Thanks for the link, it is participation like this that keeps me coming back to the list. Now where exactly did the 12 billion go, is anyone willing to throw in their twenty cents? Regards Robert Yawe KAY System Technologies Ltd Phoenix House, 6th Floor P O Box 55806 Nairobi, 00200 Kenya Tel: +254722511225, +254202010696 On Monday, 20 January 2014, 16:09, Adam Nelson <adam@varud.com> wrote: $140M USD invested in startups in 2012 seems a bit implausible to me. Am I missing something? Also, that 54 startups listed in Angellist located in Kenya is now 71: https://angel.co/locations Of those, only 3 are hiring: https://angel.co/kenya/jobs And of those 3, all have foreigners on the team and won't be developing core product here in 2 years if the Kenyanization regime isn't changed ... As an aside, if anybody is hiring at a tech/design startup, AngelList is a great place to have a profile and I'd encourage more local startups to get on there. -Adam -- Kili - Cloud for Africa: kili.io Musings: twitter.com/varud More Musings: varud.com About Adam: www.linkedin.com/in/adamcnelson On Mon, Jan 20, 2014 at 3:30 PM, Ngigi Waithaka <ngigi@at.co.ke> wrote: Robert,
Welcome back.
Now to put this into perspective, Kenyan Startups received in funding approx Ksh ***12, 000, 000, 000*** in 2012. Is there, maybe, a different numberline that us old - hackers were not taught in school?
Rgds
On Mon, Jan 20, 2014 at 2:59 PM, robert yawe <robertyawe@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
Hi,
Hoping that you have all started the year well and in a changing spirit, I had a tech free 3 weeks and feel very refreshed.
As we started the year a friend shared the the statistic above with me does anyone on this list know which startups received this money as it would be good to see how it has helped them and the impact it has had on the economy.
Regards
Robert Yawe KAY System Technologies Ltd Phoenix House, 6th Floor P O Box 55806 Nairobi, 00200 Kenya
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