[kictanet] Kenya's "Silicon Savannah" to challenge India on IT

Rad! conradakunga at gmail.com
Tue Jun 14 09:23:58 EAT 2011


I must challenge you there Robert. What do rent and kids have to do with
creativity, drive and passion? Jonathan Ive, the principal designer of the
iMac, titanium and aluminum PowerBook G4, MacBook, unibody MacBook
Pro, iPod, iPhone, and iPad has a wife and two kids. Twins. Doesn't seem to
have slowed him down any.

On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 12:26 PM, robert yawe <robertyawe at yahoo.co.uk>
wrote:
>
> Hi
> The first step is to have a passion for what you want to do, then identify
a problem that needs solving and solve it all for the fun and passion of it
not the money.
> Mariga, Ronaldo and the rest of the ilk first played soccer for the fun
and passion of the game the scouts, enforcements and money then followed.
> Regards
> PS.  I was recently reminded that once you have rent to pay your ability
to do anything new diminishes exponentially and once the kids come along
forget about coming up with any radical, industry changing application or
business concept.  If the idea was not incubated when you where in high
school or campus then join the large band of IT vendors as the other train
has left.
>
> Robert Yawe
> KAY System Technologies Ltd
> Phoenix House, 6th Floor
> P O Box 55806 Nairobi, 00200
> Kenya
>
> Tel: +254722511225, +254202010696
>
> ________________________________
> From: Phares Kariuki <pkariuki at gmail.com>
> To: robert yawe <robertyawe at yahoo.co.uk>
> Cc: KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions <kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke>
> Sent: Mon, 13 June, 2011 9:01:18
> Subject: Re: [kictanet] Kenya's "Silicon Savannah" to challenge India on
IT
>
>
>
> On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 8:29 AM, robert yawe <robertyawe at yahoo.co.uk>
wrote:
>>
>> This will give you an insight into how we can go from being a talk shop
and baby cries and get down to doing some serious productive work.
>> Without fear I will repeat what I commented previously "money follows
great ideas; period". I also like a comment from a Google employee, in one
of the documentaries, "Google is an extension of college"
>
> What's the first step?
>
> --
> With Regards,
>
> Phares Kariuki
>
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