I was reading about Aaron Patzer the former owner of mint.com (sold to Intuit for 170 M usd) he said one of the things that makes a successful business is make a product that can be sold to very many people......so claire is very right. We will never have an internet revolution if providers only think of Kile,Lavi etc.....the assumption being that for you to stay in Lavi or Kile you have more money.But there are guys in Kile who spend 3 quarters of their salo on rent so that they can fit to a certain lifestyle. Meanwhile there is dude in Eastlands with 4 butcheries each making a net of 10 k per day...... Obviously there are more people in Eastlands who can pay for Zuku..as well. Btw Riyaz for the longest I have been promised Thika Road...as well On Wed, Dec 1, 2010 at 11:23 PM, Claire Njoki <clairenjoki@gmail.com> wrote:
Guys,
Another thing I do not get is why this service should be rolled out to a dude living in lavington on one acre in a leafy estate, with his wife, one dog and a mboch (who thinks that internet is an advanced fishing net). The dude will pay wananchi Ksh. 3,499...well and good...but..
...On the other side of town, somewhere in Eastlands...the same one acre of land can accomodate 100 potential customers, housed vertically, who can also afford to pay Ksh. 3,499...
In other words:
Lavington's 1 acre = Ksh.3,499 monthly income for wananchi online Eastlands' 1 acre = Ksh.349,900 monthly income for wananchi online (100 x 3,499)
I mean even of you charged each dude in eastlands Ksh. 100 you will still make Sh. 10,000 (which is even more than what you are getting from the lavington dude)
That is why Equity Bank came and overtook those other bank that thought they were too ritzy for the common mwananchi.
Claire.
On 12/2/10, Dennis Kioko <dmbuvi@gmail.com> wrote:
What about on Msa road, estates around Msa round like South C , South B, Imara Daima, Embakasi et al, I have seen the wire that holds the fibre, but not the fibre on the elec poles?
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