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.
@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.
>
OO
Omingo Obiko
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