<font color="#330099"><font size="2"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">The reason I ask this question is how do you shield the corporation from fluctuations</font></font></font><font color="#330099"><font size="2"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> in revenue? <br>
</font></font></font><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#330099" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#330099" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">What happens if revenues slide for say 3 quarters continuously? If you did not have some form of financial cushion, you will miss financial obligations (salaries etc). <br>
</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#330099" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#330099" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">What I was driving at is how do Kenyan tech companies shield themselves from revenue fluctuations?</font></div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#330099" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jul 7, 2011 at 12:44 PM, Edwin Onchari <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:eonchari@lynxbits.com">eonchari@lynxbits.com</a>></span> wrote:</div>
<div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"><div lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple"><div><div class="im"><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D"><u></u> <u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">Phares, I'd wager at least 30% needs to be paid in taxes for a start :-) unless you have included that in the expenses already (excluding PAYE for staff) in which case I have to ask why such high margins? If the value add is very good, and assuming its a service and not a product (and you indicate) then salaries too must be high? If a product, the question remains, what has been the value add such that after acquiring the product and adding value, you still have huge profits? <u></u><u></u></p>
<div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p></div></div><div><div class="im"><p class="MsoNormal">If all above is taken into account...then I suppose re-investing in the business, in expansion and in diversifying the offerings would be the best way to go. <u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D"><u></u> <u></u></span></p></div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D">To add to what Francis has said – assuming that expansion of the tech company is not possible, then as a good corporate entity, you could participate in a worthy corporate social responsibility program<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D">Edwin<font color="#888888"><u></u><u></u></font></span></p></div><div class="im"><div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><div><p class="MsoNormal">On 7 July 2011 12:15, Phares Kariuki <<a href="mailto:pkariuki@gmail.com" target="_blank">pkariuki@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:#330099">Hi,<br clear="all"></span><u></u><u></u></p><div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#330099">Question, for those who have run tech startups, how do you deal with excessive revenue? Given that tech firms many times operate on high margins, let's, for the sake of example, say you have a product that, with an expense book of roughly 1M (Rent + Salaries), and your monthly revenue is 8 M KES. What do you do with the remaining 7M? Some say invest in product development but even then, you will still have quite an amount of change. What happens to that change? Invested in a bank? Or in some form of Fixed Income Securities (Bonds, T-Bills etc). What's the general practice in .ke? </span><u></u><u></u></p>
</div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#888888"><u></u> <u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#888888">-- <br></span><span style="color:#330099">With Regards,<br>
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