<p>+1 Agosta. Just had a chat with a startup providing value added services platforms to telcos. I hope to interview the CEO of MDSA another young firm in the same space which has become a multi million dollar business in just a couple of years. Hardly any young techies in the usual circuit have heard of these tech startups. They could teach the tech community a thing or two.</p>
<p>Muchiri<br></p>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Oct 1, 2012 10:21 AM, "Agosta Liko" <<a href="mailto:agostal@gmail.com">agostal@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
Njeri Rionge had asked me to speak about the private equity and venture capital industry in Africa � which I write about on <a href="http://www.africa-assets.com/" target="_blank">www.africa-assets.com</a>
� and the nascent ICT industry in Kenya at her Ignite �Scaling Your
Business Upwards Summit� last week in Nairobi. I gave the participants a
short overview of the private equity sector and looked at some of the
issues that particular affect SMEs considering that kind of investment.
Making the link to Kenya�s nascent ICT industry, I argued that I
expected to see far more traction in those companies who don�t get that
much enthusiastic media coverage, and who also don�t run from pitch
event and competition to the next. <br><br>read on<br><br><a href="http://www.the-star.co.ke/business/andrea-bohnstedt/95989-not-all-are-cut-out-for-business" target="_blank">http://www.the-star.co.ke/business/andrea-bohnstedt/95989-not-all-are-cut-out-for-business</a><br>
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