I wonder, what would it take for a young entrepreneur to get funding from the VC firms in the United States? It seems that the VC's are stumbling over themselves to get money into creative ideas. Perhaps they should look at Africa, perhaps they should look at Symbiotic media.

This was my thought for Sunday, I thought i might share it.If any one knows of VC firms that have a keen ear for creative ideas pushed by young minds, do let me know. I don't like the thought of organic growth. I leave that to vegetables.

I find it incredibly funny...not the ha ha type that it has actually taken me this long to put up an intro. I blame the weather.It has been incredibly shifty...blistering hot followed by some darn cold.This weather has had all these years to get into a pattern...maybe its midwind crisis.

Anyway...I am Timothy Mbugua,I love marrying creativity and technology.I am what you would call a Consultant Creative or is it Creative Consultant. Actually that is what has kept me offline for like the past two or so week.Yap, I know its kind mad that one would stay offline for that long, but lets not get into that. I have been planning my entry into mainstream business.I have been in the kitchen (nimekuwa jikoni) cooking products that harness the strenght and power of the internet and mobile technology.I have been operating stealth mode for close to six months now, forming partnerships, refining business models,analysing market needs,checking out the competition, mastering the game plan.The months of waiting and the midnight oil that has been burned into the early mornings has finally paid off.The last blocks are falling into place and the birth...no no no no the birth,the emerging of a youthful kenyan entrepreneur...



I have been on school break - studying International Business Administration at the United States International University.It has been intersting though sometimes unchallenging.I got my plans for that place too. Technology is yet to be entrenched...I am there for a reason and for a season, and I must leave my legacy.I am thinking of giving the coming semester a pass coz the next three months will be chokefull of stress and strain...i can not dare disappoint my angel investors...i tell you the grief that that a young entrepreneur goes through when trying to raise seed money.Oh you kenyan banks and financial institutions what folly.With no collateral (read land...land and more land) or if you lack the approprite connections...your so sunk.That's why the old guards are still holding onto lots...money, power,control.Well, ready or not here I come.It helps to have your networks sorted, it takes care of alot of worry.


I mentioned that Africa needs to adapt to new ways of doing business.I mean, over here it would be unbelivable to hear of companies started in a garage, or an SQ and making it bigtime.That sort of thng has been left to the west.The teachers and lecturers are yet to inspire their students think outside the box. The same old,safe ideologies are taught.Go to school, get a good job at a good company...instead of get an education, birth a new idea that addresses a need, flog it!!!!Way to go!!!

It is an intersting time to be twenty something.The world is so dynamic, you got your own freedom...you are a visitor in your parents home...yah!!!What amazes me are the vast opportunities that exist for me. I come from a backdrop of exhaltation of the so called experience when it comes to work...it pissed me so that people confine youth to a box of inexperience that they are denied opportunities to contribute positively to the growth of business. Know what? The time has come for comapanies to arise from the garages or is it servant quarters in the continent of Africa. It is time for the young entrepreneurs of Africa to arise to change our communities.Our best asset is our creative capital, this is what will see us rise...
Watch this space.