Small Business Opportunities in Kenya

[SuraMbaya]

need i add more?, i don't think so. you got it Orgoiyot. no one could have said it straighter and clearly and i wish biikabkutit take your word for it. Say it again, say it loud and say it hard, may be our people will finally wake the *&^% up and take advantage of all the opportunities lying around them
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[SuraMbaya]

by the way Orgoyot, i should have your avatar representing my image amun that's about as ugly as you can stretch it. Can I borrow it?
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[Rokiha]

I do concur with orgoyot observations. Apart from biikabkutit lacking in enterprenuership skills, we are also our own enemies we don't want to see our brother, sisters and neighbours succesding in anything they try their hands on.

And by the way they say a journeyof thousand mile starts with a step so same as a million shillings... you have to start from somewhere. So I for one I will say our people are trying hard they only need further education on enterprenuership,encouragement and motivation.

[SuraMbaya]

the biikabkutit i know like to stick around their ancestoral homes no matter what
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[Rokiha]

A good number also do fear taking risks. If they want to gain then they should be prepared to loose atimes...!!!

[altoo]

[preciousA]

name current good business opportunities

[Chemosi]

[preciousA]

based in kenya.... personally i would look at those with low to mid-level startup - but there are always ways of working around capital if the idea feels right ofcourse. But for the site sake and different preferences... lets say as far as capital anything goes- so lets hear it. I'm curious to hear what ppl in here would get/are into.

[Chemosi]

[cheptabkoret]

I will add, Kitengela, Athi River and Along Mombasa Road just before Machakos junction to that...., the value for the plots are still pocket friendly but the owners will soon have ideas.
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[preciousA]

Kisumu too... the new capital city.
not a bad idea... definitely long term .. can't go in expecting to breakeven ama see returns anytime soon. and iz how we were left hanging? correct me if i'm wrong lakini it sounds like something you have to be very hands-on about if its to go where you want it to go.

remember the time almost everyone was trying to put a matatu on the road... halafu the trend died. Sijui what came next...

[Chemosi]

[cheptabkoret]

chemosi are you trying to say we dispose of plots in places like kitengela?? or majimbo thing should be put into consideration!!! you are scaring me

and what about transport business, like lets say having a lorry that must have contracts with the manufacturing sectors or distributors agents???
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[preciousA]

Chemosi.. i hear u and i agree on a good number of things... ofcourse the last thing i'll be caught with is running a matatu thing.... thats even more hands on than real estate... and you can be easily swindled so its def not something ntaangalia, just naming trends was seeing when i left. maybe miraa biz jus kidding don't even start.
as for the city... Eldoret, Nakuru are viable, Kericho not so much. Growth rate for this town is not promising. And when u say safe.. are you talking in terms of having homeground factor ama what.. coz if not kila mahali is not safe even Eldi is gettign bad, we take risks.

Cheptabkoret... sidhani he is completely writing off all other areas, just advocating for the best placed areas to invest.

Orgoyot.... ulienda? howz the spreadsheet coming up

[cheptabkoret]

I find the term small business to be relative,since what might be small for someone else is gigantic to another. I think if we define small in terms of a scale of capital investment, we will be in a better postion to know exactly what we are talking about and to be able to estimate ROI and hence make viable judgement.
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[orgoyot]

[Tiondob Osnet]

I fully concur with Orgoyot's plan to educate the people on basic business principles. I see the same thing happening in my hometown. All people want to invest in are shops and tinga tinga. We need more diverdification in business. I think I will hold a meeting with the villagers and try and convince them that there are other opportunities out there, besides shops, tingas and resturants. The problem is that if they are church goers, which is the case in 80% of the population, they will not want to invest i anything with alchohol, orsome other business that would seem in contrast with their religious beliefs. In anycase it's better to try and fail than not to try at all. Thank you Orgoyot for shedding light on this issue!
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[Chemosi]

[cheptabkoret]

to be very frank chemosi, i suggested those areas coz they are more 'cosmoplitan' than lets say kericho and if somebody is seriously for R.E.D then i think that is where business is( my own personal judgement but based on concrete observation), . And i agree with precA;Nakuru and Eldoret sawa, kericho is more individual home area development juz like reffering to kitale....
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