For such a small country it sure seems that an awful lot of them are coming to Kenya to do business. Last week a group of 17 Danish consultants came down to do an intense 4 day workshop with our 88mph startups. The goals of the workshop were to provide background info, focus on 3 …
Working with Abiola (Gamsole) to explain the concept behind tower defense games. We’re hoping he will begin to makes games with mosquitoes as the main character.
Raphael (middle), our in-house graphic designer, working with Duncan and Steve (front) from Manyatta Rent.
Gamsole focuses on making African themed games. Here’s all of us crowding around to see their newest game, Kazoo, in action.
We got booted this week from our office space as 88mph agreed to let Google come in to host an event. Originally, it was only supposed to be half of the office, but now we’re fully out due to a failed attempt to setup space on the roof. I believe they used the same tents …
The startups are making great progress and we have now launched the new M-pepea website. The site is built on wordpress and I decided upon doing a custom design. Let me know your thoughts. Mpepea website
Today marks the day where we have 42 days until Demo Day. On December 13th, we will be hosting a group investors, technologists and journalists to see the progress of our group of 88mph startup companies. We have team meetings 3 times a week to prepare for the event. Today we focused on pitching …
Gamsole is another one of the startups that I’m currently working with. It is a group of guys from Nigeria that focus on making African-themed games for all smartphones. This weekend I setup a new WordPress-based site for them. I’m definitely getting into using WordPress and creating custom themes. It’s fairly easy to do and …
Work went well this week as I continued to really figure out what it is that I’m doing here. The primary startup that I’m working with is a company called M-Pepea (Mm – pey – pey – ah). The founder is Daniel Munga. His idea is to allow people to take out emergency loans using …
Things are busy around the office. I went on my first sales call today for one of the startups, Mpepea (Mmm – pey – pey – ah). I am the mentor assigned primarily to Mpepea. The business is designed to make it easy for people to get emergency micro loans via their mobile phones. The …
A friend of mine in Opuwo invited me for drinks after work today and this ended up going until we then had dinner. I started receiving messages about a party for me at the office. I passed this off as a joke and kept eating. I then received a few phone calls telling me I …
That’s right folks. Christmas came early in Opuwo today. A nice big box came today full of networking goodies both wired and wireless. People are extremely happy to hear that they are one step closer to getting Internet. Now it all depends whether or not they’re willing to pay for the Internet…time will tell, but …
For the past 4 months I’ve been teaching a friend of mine, Segube, within the ministry how to use computers. It’s been a test on both parts, but I can honestly say he’s on the right track…a long track…but the right track. My patience has been stretched to it’s limits. I have enjoyed it though …
Clearly no one had any guesses for my earlier post regarding how much time I have left….except my wise acre brother…so I thought I’d give it away. This week is officially my final week of work in Opuwo. Yep…that was fast. Granted, I won’t be leaving the African continent for another month, but this will …
I put some of my items on sale this week and I can honestly say that the people around the office are talking to me at much greater length than ever before. People are literally fighting over what I’m selling. I’m not selling anything great: iron, sleeping bag, mattress, etc….must be my unbelievable, unbeatable prices. …
Due to the flooding of my inbox of people just dying to know if computer equipment came today I thought I’d post about it. The long and short of it is kind of. While at work I physically received nothing that resembled computer hardware. I did receive a comment that led me to believe that …
A switch has been flipped and rumor has it that some computer and networking parts might be finding their way to Opuwo…wait for it…tomorrow! Rumors are known to run rampant in these parts so I’m not putting all my hopes in one handwoven basket. However, it’s nice to see that I might actually have a …
2008.8.25 – Walk to Work / My Office
Work updates are always fun so here is some fun. Work is interesting. Things are moving, but moving slowly. The possibility of acquiring some funds to buy some computer equipment has gotten to the stage that I’m getting some quotations from ‘local’ businesses in Windhoek. You see, every purchase requires a quotation and then an …
This is the question that everyone around the office has been asking me lately. I tell them that they should not be playing games at work. For many, it’s the first time they have spoken to me. I asked a group of people to tell me why they think games should be on the computers. …