Silicon Savannah Rising (2)

The second instalment of the Silicon Savannah Rising talk. No much excitement but progress is being made :)

Transcript

1. Silicon Savannah Rising (2): Fix $this and we should be ready to ship Anthony Nandaa, @profnandaa At #DevFest2016*, Jan 14, 2017.
2. Intro - Team Lead @ Andela Engineering - Dev/Founder at Deveint Ltd and Kazi+ - More about me at nandaa.com - “Do cool things that matter and do them now! :)”
3. Outline - recap: Lessons from the past - Moving Forward => future()
4. They say Data lieth not...
5. From startupblink.com, March 13, 2015
6. From startupblink.com, Jan 13, 2016
7. VC Fund for Startups(?) Pieces fitting together. e.g. for .KE: Savannah Fund, Safaricom Spark Fund, #InnovKE VC Fund,
8. Emerging Trend: Remote work Future of work is distributed - Andela (bigger vision) - More folks getting on UpWork, etc. - Other remote jobs (e.g. Gitlab, Ajira Digital (Govt), iHub Consult, etc)
9. The Ugly
10. Broken Education System
11. Bored of Education by Propaganda [HumbleBeast] Video: https://youtu.be/RD2o6soOe1I
12. Individualism - Me, Myself and I! - Busy hacking alone - “My idea will be stolen” :-D “Make a choice between pursuing personal achievement and collective prosperity” - @MachariaSST at #InnovKE
13. Downloads / Uploads We do a lot of downloads, less uploads! - Consume a lot of open-source, but contribute less. - [Do mini-survey] - We need to start!
14. Downloads / Uploads - Even our ISP know that
15. Moving Forward
16. “Even if you’re on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.” - Will Rogers
17. Some of my context
18. 1. The African #ICQ We need that one major exit, that will make others believe!
19. 2. Where’s the African Yossi Vardi? The rise of the Angel Investor, real Angel Investor, not fake! Don’t have to be 1 only. “40 years, 60 high-tech companies [and ∞ startups]” http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yo ssi_Vardi
20. 3. Go open-source Stop flipping busa, and start flipping bits :) Time to also start shipping to Silicon Valley and the World.
21. 4. Eager to Learn/Teach - Staying foolish. - More learners please? - More teachers please? Those that can even teach for free...
22. 5. Altruism You can be a bridge over troubled waters, YOU! - advice - mentoring - teaching - getting out of your way
23. 6. Support Local
24. 6. Support Local - Time to start eating our own dog food! - Starts with us, not/forget government - There’s no problem in eating our own crap! - Has a boomerang effect, ecosystem -wise. #najijenga
25. 7. Patience - Staying hungry - Still moving fast, breaking things, but patiently waiting for results. - We’ll get there!
26. Thank You Q/A? Blog: www.nandaa.com Twitter/GitHub: @profnandaa Presentation: bit.ly/ss-rising-2