<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif;font-size:12pt"><div style="color: black; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt; "></div><div style="color: black; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt; ">Hi</div><div style="color: black; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt; "><br></div><div style="color: black; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt; ">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.</div><div style="color: black; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt; "><br></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'times new roman', 'new york', times,
serif" size="3">Mariga, Ronaldo and the rest of the ilk first played soccer for the fun and passion of the game the scouts, </font><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif">enforcements</font><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif" size="3"> and money then followed.</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif" size="3"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif" size="3">Regards</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif" size="3"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif" size="3">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.</font></div><div style="color: black; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt; "> </div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif" size="3">Robert Yawe</font><br><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif" size="3">KAY System Technologies Ltd</font><br><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif" size="3">Phoenix House, 6th Floor</font><br><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif" size="3">P O Box 55806 Nairobi, 00200</font><br><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif"
size="3">Kenya</font><br><br><div style="color: black; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt; ">Tel: +254722511225, +254202010696<div><br></div><div style="font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><br><div style="font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><font size="2" face="Tahoma"><hr size="1"><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">From:</span></b> Phares Kariuki <pkariuki@gmail.com><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> robert yawe <robertyawe@yahoo.co.uk><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Cc:</span></b> KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions <kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Mon, 13 June, 2011 9:01:18<br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: [kictanet] Kenya's "Silicon Savannah" to challenge India on IT<br></font><br><font color="#000066"><font size="2"><font
face="tahoma,sans-serif"><br></font></font></font><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 8:29 AM, robert yawe <span dir="ltr"><<a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:robertyawe@yahoo.co.uk" target="_blank" href="mailto:robertyawe@yahoo.co.uk">robertyawe@yahoo.co.uk</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"><div>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.</div>
<div><br></div><div>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"</div>
</blockquote></div><br><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000066" face="georgia, serif">What's the first step?<br clear="all"><br>-- <br></font><font color="#000066"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="georgia, serif">With Regards,<br>
<br>Phares Kariuki</font><br><br><font class="Apple-style-span" face="tahoma, sans-serif">| T: +254 720 406 093 | E: </font><a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:pkariuki@gmail.com" target="_blank" href="mailto:pkariuki@gmail.com" style="font-family:tahoma, sans-serif;">pkariuki@gmail.com</a><font class="Apple-style-span" face="tahoma, sans-serif"> | Twitter: kaboro | Skype: kariukiphares | B: </font><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.kaboro.com/" style="font-family:tahoma, sans-serif;">http://www.kaboro.com/</a><font class="Apple-style-span" face="tahoma, sans-serif"> |</font></font><br>
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