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

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POLL: Are you employed or an entrepreneur?
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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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