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The Business Inside You Startup Expo 2018




Give life to and successfully grow your ideas 

 

What is the Business Inside You Startup Expo about? 

BIY is a maiden startup event scheduled for February 23-24th 2018 at the Strathmore University and packaged as the most holistic expo for the Kenyan startup ecosystem.
Conceptualized around the premise that there is a business inside each one of us, BIY seeks to bring out and give life the business inside you and should it already be in existence help you successfully grow it.  

As it stands, the situation for Kenyan startups is grim; reports from the Kenya National Bureau of Statistics show over 400,000 small businesses failed in 2015, an unacceptable mortality rate for the Kenyan economy. 



Cognizant of this, BIY18 seeks to identify the challenges of starting and sustaining a small business by converging the Kenyan startup ecosystem stakeholders into one event and offer answers from the basics of starting a business in Kenya to listing in the Nairobi Stock Exchange. Over 2 days in February 2018, we will bring together entrepreneurs, startups, innovators, financiers, government, academia, incubators, mentors, customers, suppliers, corporations and franchises to define the conversation and direction of Kenya’s startup ecosystem.

The event will have exhibition space for stakeholders to showcase their offers and comprehensive conference sessions designed to answer your startup questions, address pertinent issues and ultimately give life to the business inside you. It is time to change your narrative from job seeker to job creator and BIY18 is the place to start penning your amazing story.

As we highlight small businesses, the Shujaa’s of Kenya’s economy this October, let us know your fears, challenges and aspirations that we may discuss on our social media pages and curate an amazing conference agenda to confidently guide you and your ideas to your new title as MD of your own business. 


So what business is inside you and how may we give it life and successfully grow it?

#unapologeticallykenyan, #startupstorieske, #myshujaabusiness  #BIY18


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  1. Unknown31 July 2018 at 11:08

    This piece is awakening call to all unemployed youths. Good work.

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