Well, I am under the assumption that dubious tenders and contracts thrive in the public sector, but are less in the private sector. Or maybe you could clarify a bit more?

Funny coincidence that my examples are all service oriented companies...

On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 9:48 AM, Okechukwu <okechukwu@gmail.com> wrote:
@Peter - dubious tenders and contracts mean anything to you?

./Ok3ch

On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 9:45 AM, Peter Karunyu <pkarunyu@gmail.com> wrote:
> I think it depends on your target market and your definition of rich.
>
> If my definition of rich is the ability to buy a new $3499 Area-51 ALX PC
> every month, then a number of ICT techies are indeed rich. You mean to tell
> me that the nice folks over @ SevenSeas, CraftSilicon, AT etc are not rich?
>
> One common trend I have noticed with these top firms is that they target the
> top end of the market, not the common mwananchi or SME.
>
>
> On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 8:33 AM, Okechukwu <okechukwu@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> I believe you can never get rich off ICT in Kenya unless you get
>> dubious tenders to supply computers at 20k when you buy them at 30k
>> and even fail to supply and pocket the money. And I decided to be rich
>> so am leaving IT :-)
>>
>> ./Ok3ch
>>
>> On Tue, Jun 28, 2011 at 10:04 PM, Webmaster <webmaster@kenyanlyrics.com>
>> wrote:
>> > On 6/28/2011 10:00 PM, Mark Mwangi wrote:
>> >
>> > are you rich off this strategy?
>> >
>> > On Tue, Jun 28, 2011 at 9:13 PM, Webmaster <webmaster@kenyanlyrics.com>
>> > wrote:
>> >>
>> >> You must:
>> >>
>> >> 1. Target broad niches - Hypertargeting will not work for Africa. The
>> >> rewards are too small.
>> >> 2. At the very least, have a business that will scale regionally -
>> >> Kenya's
>> >> 40 million people will never put you in the Silicon Valley league, but
>> >> East
>> >> Africa's 142 million people could.
>> >>
>> >> That is all I have to say.
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