to follow mrs. njung'es advice, invest some of the capital in forming a relationship with the OCS or OCPD....and keeep them as a running cost in business. cops all the time kwa hiyo biashara.
kuwa na roho ngumu.

@ Borsenmakler, @ Derrick.Joker. What would you suggest Omenaz engages in?

Omenaz

all those your ideas are prettie good but it depends on so many things to succeed. 20,000 is on the lower side cos you need a pop corn machine, rent or rather a computer to compete. As you still think you can generate more income through this - read this www.mlmcoach.biz

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Omenaz

If you want to do business your two ideas are totally lame, kind of thing all the idle educated youth in the estates are thinking about.

20k is a lot of cash to start, it's the idea and attitude not the capital that matters. Let me give an example of my gumbaro friend who i hang out with, over the weekend he told there is a maize shortage so he suggested we drive to those sides of emali and beyond to look for maize the expected price was 2500/ per bag. We went but we didn't get at our target price the locals want 3200/= so it looked like a bad trip as the only other things were onions and tomatoes which are already in season. But on the way back the guy notices people selling charcoal those side of kiboko, so he steps out and negotiates price per bag 350-400, each stop he kept buying and buying. coming to nairobi he sold the bags at 1200/= and he would have made even better cash just breaking bulk and selling the charcoal in some tins.

long and short if you want to know how njenga karume became rich from selling charcoal that's how it's done, if you want to make it start small with groceries every other good businessman i've met started by selling groceries door to door in parklands, now you go to mombasa road and think of all the new settlements you can sell groceries to, you begin to wonder what you are thinking of pop-corn and movies n series, my friend money does not grow on trees you buy low sell high...that's the first lesson n unless you learn it practically all your ideas will come to a cropper.

kudos @ proverB but isnt the selling of charcoal affected by brokers

Much apologies, i must have sounded arrogant. Well, I appreciate the fact that we cannot be all equal in life, thats a reality. Anyway, that said I still uphold that serious start ups are tricky and you certainly wouldnt like capital to be an hindrance. To overcome this problem, its is better to 'pull together' as I pointed out, with a few colleages and atleast build a good capital.

samaki iko na pesa; Buy 600gram fish @ 50 bob n limuru; Sell @180 bob per kg in Gikomba;