[kictanet] More support for springing startups

[Ahmed Mohamed Maawy]

Listers,

Allow me to post a question on the group - which is the question I had in
mind to present to CS Joe Mucheru. Mine is a burning question on how to
incentivize the startup eco-system, including:

   1. How to make the business registration process a bit less hectic.
   2. Tax breaks for some amount of time during which they operate to pick
   up business and traction around this.

Having managed the eco-system in Mombasa for a while, I think you end up
finding potential kids and other chaps having ideas, but who can not enter
into some contests or can not be eligible to enroll to specific support
frameworks because of their lack of a business registration certificate.
Which is sad, to see such potential go all the way down the drain because
of financial or other constraints.
There is a pipeline issue for potential startups here that needs to be
resolved, but how can we work together around this?

-- 
*Ahmed Maawy*
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