Hi good people. I am in the process of setting up a product for my consultancy firm. The product, really service, is bringing together people with similar ideas and assisting to register and run a partnership for the chosen idea. The service will involve floating existing business ideas as well as user generated business ideas and asking for willing persons to join in as a partner. The members will then register the business as a company or partnership as the case may be and agree on the levels of contribution of each member. Then launch. My consultancy will facilitate this entire process and possibly act as proxy manager if no partner is available to run business on a day to day basis. Kindly give me your thoughts on this.

Further to the post by my colleague above, kindly send your enquiries to nisawagroup@gmail.com for further details.

We are currently focusing on real estate, securities market, unit trusts and to some extent ideas for completely new business. The advantage is that you get to invest from as low as Kshs. 1000 in multiple businesses hence diversifying risk. We strive to achieve a net aggregated return of at least 6% upto 50% per year depending on your risk tolerance.

Write to nisawagroup@gmail.com for further details.

On the returns..do you have something to show for it?What kind of funds do you currently have in the 3 areas you have talked about as individuals and what have been the returns and for how long have you done this?
What I am saying is that I hope you will not be doing this for the first time using other peoples' money?

@Veteran, we are a consultancy firm that deals with business analysis and market research. It is true we have not been directly in the business of asset management, but we have in several ways advised clients on the same. Our professional qualifications as well as field experience will come in handy. Most importantly, you will not be coming to this blindly since our service involve development of empirical risk profiles for each of the investment ideas.

We begin with the less risky ones like real estate and selected securities. Then we progress that way identifying existing opportunities and estimating their risk levels. Then to the very risky ones like completely new ideas. If you want to launch an import business of used cars, for instance, we will conduct a research of trends in the market so we can advice you on units that will sell fast. And since you may not have enough cash to do it on your own, you can endorse the idea and pledge some amount towards it. Other people will also do the same. As soon as we determine that threshold for initial capital has been made, we invite all persons who have expressed interest in the idea and the official business registration begins. Then the partners make their contributions and place the money in the company/partnership/business account. Real business begins.

Our role in all this is: facilitating partner identification, feasibility analysis, development of risk profile and risk mitigation strategies, business registration and general market research. After business is launched, if the partners so chose, we will act as proxy managers for the business until it grows.We do the same for every novel idea.

As for the figures, these vary from case to case and especially as per your risk appetite. Take the example of car import above. We can classify it as being of relatively low risk since all it takes is to buy what sells. Typically, when you buy a unit costing 800k to 1.2m, you make profit ranging from 100k to 300k. If you divide 100k by 800k, you get 12.5%. That is your ROI and typically if you buy the right car you can offload it within 2 months at most. Now if you compute this for 4 units per year, u can see u can get a return of almost 50%. Members can decide to each contribute 100k, for 8 partners. So your take home for every unit sale will be around 13k. This is good money. Now this was just an hypothetical example, but it can work.

I had this very same idea brewing in my mind for a while and now that you've brought it to bits(paper), I see that it is a very feasible idea AS LONG AS the legal framework is well developed to ensure that funds are not lost in this venture. This is nothing like a pyramid scheme since actual goods and/or services are being traded. It is more of a crowd funding venture, which is what the common mwananchi needs to spur innovation. Hit me up on ss85_smith at yahoo dot com. I am very interested in this.

Meanwhile keep your thoughts coming...

Seems like a noble idea. What have you been able to do so far?

@blueman, how is this going? I'd like to have a chat.

Moto ya karatasi.
I guess this died a natural death unlike Eskay company that was killed by Cindano the real massey!