Hi Bobby<br><br>Your ideas are very valid. We are already hosting two of such applications developed by our students and look forward to host more. Our incubator is also developing partnerships to provide seed capital to students with valid business ideas.More info in the near future.<br>
<br>Regards <br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 11:09 AM, robert yawe <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:robertyawe@yahoo.co.uk">robertyawe@yahoo.co.uk</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
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</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'times new roman','new york',times,serif; font-size: 12pt;">Hi,</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'times new roman','new york',times,serif; font-size: 12pt;">
<br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'times new roman','new york',times,serif; font-size: 12pt;">I was fortunate enough to attend the iLabAfrica student presentation on Friday last week, it was a very refreshing experience and look forward to when they move to the incubation stage.</div>
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Over the years I have been able to provide rudimentary incubation facilities to various organisations which have been able to graduate and gone off on their own which is a very rewarding experience.</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'times new roman','new york',times,serif; font-size: 12pt;">
<br></div><div><font face="'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif" size="3">My </font><font face="'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif">recommendations</font><font face="'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif" size="3"> to students is that they need to use the university environment to test their concepts just like was done with facebook and other similar startups. The university environment if more forgiving than the world outside, all
that is required will be hosting facilities which already exist. </font></div><div><font face="'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif" size="3"><br></font></div><div><font face="'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif" size="3">After the concept has been tested at Strathmore they can increase the reach by going across to other universities, that statement just gave me a deja-vu moment (think facebook), a population of over 300,000 students which offered a very large market.</font></div>
<div><font face="'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif">All applications presented can be launched and run at the university, in addition the teams should look for ways to raise initial capital from the student body as a way to horn their negotiation skills.
The University can actually run a stock exchange able to raise seed capital for the projects while also giving the students experience in alternative funding sources.<br></font></div><div><font face="'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif" size="3"><br>
</font></div><div><font face="'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif">It is none the less a commendable effort by Strathmore University and I look forward to seeing more such initiatives across all other Universities.</font></div>
<div><font face="'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif">Regards</font></div><div><font face="'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif" size="3"> </font></div>
<font face="'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif" size="3">Robert Yawe</font><br><font face="'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif" size="3">KAY System Technologies Ltd</font><br>
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