In other words, if you had money to invest in a certain small/ medium sized business, which emerging industry would interest you the most? Which do you think has the most potential for growth?

enterprise level or mass market apps? John Waibochi and Erik Hersman have set an extremely high, maybe even daunting precedent for Kenya in this segment

so how exactly do you expect to make money in this industry?
What can you invest and make money that has tried and exhausted abroad?
Please expound.

if you consider donor funding a monetisavion method, then I can tell you with certainty that they are looking for agricultural African mobile apps to fund

Is there anything that can be termed as 'emerging' in Kenya really?
Someone starts something and everyone picks it up as the 'new' money maker, you name it - perfumes, oriflame, GNLD, Turkey clothes, Singapole cars, simu ya jamii, mpesa agent, ostrich, rabbit, chameleons, fish ponds, printing tshirts, classified websites and now the new fad - organic farming.
I learned a long time to stick to what I know best after watching enough people burn their fingers in these get rich quickest ventures.

What is an iPhone worth in Kenya? What about a BlackBerry touchscreen? Just curious on whether I should send a few in your direction for profit.

@selah Mbugua Njihia may talk a good talk, but I am yet to see a good walk from him. His company is responsible for:

1. The Zunguka.com network (nothing to shout about)
2. The Royal Media online portal, which is very poorly executed compared to the likes of Nation and Capital

If you ask me, the examples to follow in this mobile app space are Erik Hersman for his work with Ushahidi, John Waibochi, for his work with Virtual City, Karanja Macharia for his work with Mobile Planet and Ken Njoroge for his work with Cellulant

Mobile apps... can we be specific? What kind of apps? To serve what demographic? What kind of content or data will these apps deliver? And how will they make money? Will people pay for them, or will ads be bought? And if ads will be bought, how long am I supposed to wait while supporting the cost of the It programmers and infrastructure behind the app before I see cash?

I think that if you want to make money in Kenya in IT, it's best to stop dreaming of the next Facebook or Google for now (which are government funded, spent tens of millions of dollars before making any money at all, and don't HAVE to make money anyway) and focus on what is being serviced by outsiders... Kenya's new check truncation system... digital check images... THAT would have been a good IT focus, and is down-to-earth, brick-and-mortar money. We need to bring all current IT business and tenders "home". I read about an Indian guy that was waiting tables and a couple years later, had a Billion dollar IT business. WTF? That should have been a Kenyan.

Could still be.

Best.