Since our trip to Africa was a family vacation and I really didn’t want business to intrude I wound up not spending time with startups in Nairobi. But I did talk to a lot of people we encountered about their use of technology. Mobile communication is almost everywhere. Only when we went into more remote Samburu territory did we not have a cell signal. Many people are still using feature phones but Android is making rapid headway. An iPhone is considered to be a real luxury item and very few p...

Since our trip to Africa was a family vacation and I really didn’t want business to intrude I wound up not spending time with startups in Nairobi. But I did talk to a lot of people we encountered about their use of technology. Mobile communication is almost everywhere. Only when we went into more remote Samburu territory did we not have a cell signal. Many people are still using feature phones but Android is making rapid headway. An iPhone is considered to be a real luxury item and very few p...

We just got back from nearly three weeks in Africa spent mostly in Kenya and a bit in Tanzania. I have tons of great photos of animals and nature which I may eventually post elsewhere but for Continuations I figured I would share some of my impressions. William Gibson once wrote that “the future is already here – it is just not very evenly distributed.” That quote stuck in my mind as we experienced an enormous gradient between the bustling city of Nairobi (with 4 million or so inhabitants) an...

We just got back from nearly three weeks in Africa spent mostly in Kenya and a bit in Tanzania. I have tons of great photos of animals and nature which I may eventually post elsewhere but for Continuations I figured I would share some of my impressions. William Gibson once wrote that “the future is already here – it is just not very evenly distributed.” That quote stuck in my mind as we experienced an enormous gradient between the bustling city of Nairobi (with 4 million or so inhabitants) an...