The article had the line But in the battle with MetroVox he had an asset that more than compensated for these shortcomings: For years he had worked on his site with an uncanny, machine-like constancy, doing all the painstaking and repetitive things that would make most people desperate with frustration and boredom,* and he had done them happily.* This is the part, I think, where it will be difficult to copy him. On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 1:00 PM, Edward Obiko <edobie@gmail.com> wrote:
@Chris et al I actually did read that article and that's exactly where I hoped the convo would head. Since many of us are too fixated on first making the $$$ than running the idea isn't this the reason why these 'counter-intuitive' products will always out-do our models.
Alex once gave us a Video done by Paul Graham on Start-Ups, which had a sort of provocative statement, 'don't worry about the money'. Is there space not to worry about the money here? Is it possible to complete a trade albeit online without breaking like 10 laws to do with taxation, advertising, licenses? Just wondering...
On 9/3/09, Lmwangi <lmwangi@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi all,
On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 12:43 PM, Michuki Mwangi <michuki@swiftkenya.com>wrote:
We could easily outdo KDNs traffic network and that will be cheap for everyone since we are keeping it local :).
But then .... how many are willing?
Nail on the head, the problem is there's way too much inertia to change.
I mean look at the forum, how many people in this forum have posted an item? how about registering? The address is http://my.co.ke/phpbb/ How about http://jam.get.co.ke/ (and another microblog that was posted on the forum weeks ago) How about the local file sharing http://get.co.ke/ and a host of many good sites: http://www.dealer.co.ke/ http://www.zatiti.com/ http://www.chekelea.com/ ...
My 2 cents.
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