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Hotel categories will surely vary because certain places are primer. We intend to have alpha rooms for backpacking, flagship and elite rooms

Kenya has 6million smartphones against 37 million phones. ICT cabinet secretary, yesterday announced that in order to increase uptake, there's a planned reduction on the import tax on smartphones. This is an advantage to many with a business model, Siris type. Given that most of Kenya's internet is accessed through phones, an increase in quality of it, means rosier times COOL

It's a great experience having Alex as part of our team. In. testimony of our pedigree, he has been admitted to UC Berkeley for a EECS degree, complete your time as a MasterCard scholar, and join us in building Africa's largest hotel chain. Fastest

Hotels are willing to sign up as long as we deliver on our promise. In exchange, we are getting six months to try.

For Africa probably

We are considering both. At hotels payment has already been used across Africa. we'll just implement with modification perhaps

We intend to leverage on the fact that Kenya's hospitality market has had some issues the past two years and occupancy levels have dipped to about 20%. For customers we will use mainly townhalls and referrals

If we got to 50 guests daily, we would be ramen profitable, life in Nairobi is much cheaper than in SF. We can live in hostels at our uni, for so long as our 4 year study program is still on, it costs US $50, a year. We can also live on $2, a day for three of us' meals.

We will ensure that hotels we partner with always have water, in Nairobi, for instance, water from local authorities is unreliable, so some hotels have boreholes, but many don't know those with these. We will standardize / ensure 5 main issues are met at partner hotels: water availability, clean rooms, diversified payment, good breakfast and access to basic amenities such as mosquito nets

We intend to conduct routine checks, have a fleet on the street, and through reviews by our customers

On the tech issue, we are developing technology around booking, Africans accessing the net over mobile is on the increase (Kenya has more mobile phones than toilets) and with hotels around inventory management via an extranet app

We're using technology to build a virtual hotel chain, and will distribute inventory through our portals or through partner travel agencies. We'll partner with hotels, standardizing experience and branding them under our banner. All our hotels will give a promise of a uniform experience, so no grading is required

With priceline, the issues were simple, the hotels were of good quality but for our case we must standardize. On oyo,I read about them but they have focused on scale amidst issues with customers www.socialsamosa.com/2016/02/oyo-rooms-viral-consumer-rant-pandoras-box/. So we plan to launch leveraging on surplus but standardizing experience. We will derive revenue from a 10% referral fee and also charge 5% service charge for standardizing the stay

Siris is built around my pain points and those of people close to me.It dates back 2009, when my mum got an on job promotion that increased her travels, she wanted to save something for us; a shirt for me, a dress for my little sister and occasionally shoes for my dad, we enjoyed it but she had to sleep in "good" hotels which derailed her mornings since they had no water for a morning bath. Last year, my father lost a laptop with loads of data, in a tier 2_town in western Kenya. I also travelled to Kampala, Uganda and encountered similar issues, the linen was good but their was no mosquito net, I contracted malaria. A friend of mine also had to host his dad while drunk, since his dad could not find a predictable hotel,the issues are that serious.