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Poll Question : Today, I make most of my living from:
Choice Votes Statistics
Employment (select here) 28 59 %
Entrepreneur (select here) 16 34 %
Investment (select here) 3 6 %
Total 47 100%

POLL: Are you employed or an entrepreneur?
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KenyanLyrics
#1 Posted : Friday, January 07, 2011 2:01:43 PM
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Admin @wazua please help and put a poll option. Also, I think that if you're a bit of both(employed but with a business on the side, or vice versa), put the option which you rely on to make a living as your choice
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Amir
#2 Posted : Friday, January 07, 2011 2:41:56 PM
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What is the objective of the poll? so that when we start polling we know why we are doing so.

The Brave may not live forever - but the cautious do not live at all: Richard Branson
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KenyanLyrics
#3 Posted : Friday, January 07, 2011 3:09:48 PM
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Simple user profiling. Just for the sake of knowing what kind of environment Wazua is. It would help alot if people were to post in words how they voted
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bendi3
#4 Posted : Friday, January 07, 2011 3:43:40 PM
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What if i am employed in my own company...where would i fit?
The early worm, is the one caught by the early bird.........
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muganda
#5 Posted : Friday, January 07, 2011 4:19:26 PM
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bendi3 wrote:
What if i am employed in my own company...where would i fit?

Insightful;
1. My dream is to achieve the best, whatever the chosen option
2. My admiration for those who transition from employ-> entrepreneur -> investment
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Wendz
#6 Posted : Monday, January 10, 2011 12:53:08 PM
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muganda wrote:
bendi3 wrote:
What if i am employed in my own company...where would i fit?

Insightful;
1. My dream is to achieve the best, whatever the chosen option
2. My admiration for those who transition from employ-> entrepreneur -> investment


What if i am employed, have a business running on the side and i invest proceeds on say stocks and property? Where does one click?
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bendi3
#7 Posted : Monday, January 10, 2011 2:18:23 PM
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Wendz wrote:
muganda wrote:
bendi3 wrote:
What if i am employed in my own company...where would i fit?

Insightful;
1. My dream is to achieve the best, whatever the chosen option
2. My admiration for those who transition from employ-> entrepreneur -> investment


What if i am employed, have a business running on the side and i invest proceeds on say stocks and property? Where does one click?


You have just described the people who are driving the Kenyan economy.Soon in think employers will be asking prospective employees to declare their wealth as a reference search.

The guy could be a competititor....
The early worm, is the one caught by the early bird.........
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KenyanLyrics
#8 Posted : Wednesday, January 12, 2011 8:35:02 AM
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Wendz wrote:

What if i am employed, have a business running on the side and i invest proceeds on say stocks and property? Where does one click?

click the one which if you lose you will cry the hardest
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muganda
#9 Posted : Wednesday, January 12, 2011 4:58:28 PM
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Interesting to see how this is shaping up - @KenyanLyrics in good company I see...
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KenyanLyrics
#10 Posted : Monday, January 17, 2011 2:24:33 AM
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Lets keep this going. I don't think wazua has only 25members
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Tommy
#11 Posted : Monday, January 17, 2011 10:23:52 AM
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@Kenyanlirics, i hope that you will give us your findings and a conclision.
Don't wait for the Last Judgment. It happens every day. ~Albert Camus, The Fall, 1956
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KenyanLyrics
#12 Posted : Wednesday, February 02, 2011 3:29:34 PM
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Sample size is still too small. We need at least 100 people to choose
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muganda
#13 Posted : Wednesday, February 02, 2011 9:39:47 PM
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Oft' written how the young pine for love. But I tell you I have seen a young entrepreneur with a dream, and I'd liken them to a mad hatter. They eat drink sleep the dream, and in a few very rare cases become the legends we all look up to.

So what does what does this mean in the Kenyan context, when founders of technology companies leave their babies to seek employment?
-Paul Kukubo leaves 3Mice to join ICT board
-Ory Okolloh leaves Ushahidi to join Google
-Moses Kemibaro leaves DotSavvy to join MIH Dealfish
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KenyanLyrics
#14 Posted : Wednesday, February 02, 2011 11:39:17 PM
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Explanations:

3mice's cashflow issues were well documented, and though Kukubo left, the company is still running(I think its his sister running it)

Ushahidi is not a business. It's a fun ride for a noble cause and once a proper exit shows up, you take it. For a leader of an open-source company, a job at Google is one of the best exits you could get. By that time Okolloh had built Ushahidi into a 2million dollar company, with a flourishing asset base(iHub and NaiLab), so her leaving does not mean Ushahidi is dead

In the case of DotSavvy, to be honest I did not know that Kemibaro had left, and I don't think its true. Verification needed
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