Ben Maina
Ben Maina
Nov 5 · 1 min read

The ecosystem was there long before 2006. Before the age of app-based businesses there were ISPs, web development companies, networking companies and hardware companies that were start-ups — read about Africa Online, Wananchi, KenyaWeb, 3mice, Dotsavvy, CopyCat, Software Technologies, etc. These were all start-ups.

What might be interesting to examine are the periods in which similar start-ups launched e.g. ISPs launched in the same period, as did software development companies, as did web development ones. The period you define just brought about a new wave of companies — perhaps smaller and larger in number but that doesn’t mark the “beginning”. Just like Silicon Valley traces its history back to the semi-conductor and the traitorous eight and not to the internet boom of the '90s

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    Internet & telecoms enthusiast. Entrepreneur.