Thanks Brian, Allow me to say: This is one of the best times in Kenyan history to be a Technopreneuer (Tech Enterpreneuer). Not only is the government making great efforts (thanks PS Ndemo) there are people and companies willing to finance companies with great ideas and also partner with such local companies. One of the key missing items are people with great ideas, with prototypes of their great ideas and some sort of business model for their great ideas. If I were one of you skunkers who is sitting on a great idea, I would get off the list and start building a prototype of my grand idea and create a business model for it! If you have already done that and you don't know what to do, simply do a shout out on the list. There are a good number of people in the list including myself who can point you to the right direction. One may wonder why I'm saying this. Back in our days (actually a few years back), it was the good old gridding, till your teeth fall off. You could present your ideas to a company and they wouldn't give a !@#$. However this has changed significantly. So go out there to those free events with Food and internet already sponsored. Learn how the business environment works, learn how to present your grand idea (ofcourse with a prototype at hand) and Learn how to protect your grand idea! Enough Said! 8~! --- On Mon, 1/25/10, Solomon Mburu Kamau <solo.mburu@gmail.com> wrote: From: Solomon Mburu Kamau <solo.mburu@gmail.com> Subject: Re: [Skunkworks] Kenya's next city - a Technopolis To: "Skunkworks Forum" <skunkworks@lists.my.co.ke> Date: Monday, January 25, 2010, 1:48 PM 2010/1/25 Brian Munyao Longwe <blongwe@gmail.com> Hi Skunks, Heads up for the next big thing - a tech city in a place called Malili. Permanent Sec. Dr. Ndemo gave a talk about this to KICTANET members last week. Look at the powerpoint at: http://www.slideshare.net/blongwe/malili-technopolis-concept-paper Mblayo Thanks 'Mblayo' for sending this over! _______________________________________________ Skunkworks mailing list Skunkworks@lists.my.co.ke http://lists.my.co.ke/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/skunkworks ------------ Skunkworks Server donations spreadsheet http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0AopdHkqSqKL-dHlQVTMxU1VBdU1BSWJxdy1f... ------------ Skunkworks Rules http://my.co.ke/phpbb/viewtopic.php?f=24&t=94 ------------ Other services @ http://my.co.ke Other lists ------------- Announce: http://lists.my.co.ke/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/skunkworks-announce Science: http://lists.my.co.ke/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/science kazi: http://lists.my.co.ke/cgi-bin/mailman/admin/kazi/general -- Solomon Mbũrũ Kamau P.O. Box 19343 - 00202 Nairobi Cell: (+254-0) 735 431041 Man is a gregarious animal and enjoys agreement as cows will graze all the same way to the side of a hill! AND It is better to die in dignity than in the ignomity of ambiguous generosity! http://dawn-in-kenya.blogspot.com http://smiley2.wordpress.com http://mburu.sikika.co.ke -----Inline Attachment Follows----- _______________________________________________ Skunkworks mailing list Skunkworks@lists.my.co.ke http://lists.my.co.ke/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/skunkworks ------------ Skunkworks Server donations spreadsheet http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0AopdHkqSqKL-dHlQVTMxU1VBdU1BSWJxdy1f... ------------ Skunkworks Rules http://my.co.ke/phpbb/viewtopic.php?f=24&t=94 ------------ Other services @ http://my.co.ke Other lists ------------- Announce: http://lists.my.co.ke/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/skunkworks-announce Science: http://lists.my.co.ke/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/science kazi: http://lists.my.co.ke/cgi-bin/mailman/admin/kazi/general