<html><head></head><body bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><div>Agreed Liko. </div><div><br></div><div>Good article which makes solid (but boring?) suggestions on what Techpreneurs should do to ensure success. </div><div><br></div><div>This is a wake up call in the next phase of making all this pent up innovation and hard work pay off. </div><div><br></div><div>Soft Skills are as important as the hardcore skills of making apps and other ICT services and products actually work. Even Facebook is now being judged by the adult matrix of monetization. Looking at their latest investor presentation I found it fascinating that they are now keeping a close eye on a key financial matrix first made famous by mobile service providers - ARPU (Average Revenue Per User).</div><div><br></div><div><br><div>Ali Hussein</div><div><br></div><div>+254 773/713 601113</div><div><br></div><div>Sent from my iPhone®</div></div><div><br>On Jul 29, 2012, at 9:36 AM, Agosta Liko <<a href="mailto:agostal@gmail.com">agostal@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><div></div><blockquote type="cite"><div>Good Piece ... <a href="http://the-star.co.ke/business/andrea-bohnstedt/87104-why-its-so-hard-for-software-developers-to-get-loans">http://the-star.co.ke/business/andrea-bohnstedt/87104-why-its-so-hard-for-software-developers-to-get-loans</a><br>
<br><p>If headlines, white noise on social media and venture capital
competitions are anything to go by, Nairobi’s belly should have burst
open by now, Alien-style, and spawned lots and lots of baby ICT
enterprises. That hasn’t happened yet. And I am not that surprised.</p><p>Business Daily picked up this issue in an article on ‘<a href="http://www.businessdailyafrica.com/Breaking+into+mobile+apps+market+an+uphill+task+/-/1248928/1463146/-/gq7ph7/-/index.html">Breaking into Mobile Apps an Uphill Task for Young Developers</a>’
this week: ‘Hardly a day passes without a news report that a new mobile
application has been developed in Kenya. However, behind this success
is the untold story of the challenges that developers face as they seek
to break into the market and access funding to develop and market their
inventions.’ .....<br></p><br>
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