+1 Robert, I just hope that we can get some lessons from this article , and yes above all balance is ought to be struck so that entrepreneurship may be nurtured and sustained. I actually like this interesting "Hardly Working: Start-up Guys" clip http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LMmdl4VltD4&feature. Gideon Rop On Sat, Oct 13, 2012 at 11:15 AM, <kictanet-request@lists.kictanet.or.ke>wrote:

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Message: 1 Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2012 22:22:42 +0300 From: Ali Hussein <ali@hussein.me.ke> To: robert yawe <robertyawe@yahoo.co.uk> Cc: KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions <kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke> Subject: Re: [kictanet] The Danger of Celebritizing Entrepreneurship Message-ID: <B0BDCF98-65B7-459A-807B-31049C5B994A@hussein.me.ke> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"

Robert

This is apt and timely. The thing though is to find a balance to ensure that the real entrepreneurs rise above the noise.

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Ali Hussein

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On Oct 12, 2012, at 9:00 PM, robert yawe <robertyawe@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:

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Hi All,

This is an interesting article that explains the comprenuers (competition entrepreneurs) bug that is affecting so many of our brilliant minds

http://blogs.hbr.org/cs/2012/10/the_danger_of_celebritizing_en.html

Regards

Robert Yawe KAY System Technologies Ltd Phoenix House, 6th Floor P O Box 55806 Nairobi, 00200 Kenya

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