{"id":69096,"date":"2023-07-29T02:25:12","date_gmt":"2023-07-29T02:25:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/startup.info\/?p=69096"},"modified":"2023-08-14T21:49:40","modified_gmt":"2023-08-14T21:49:40","slug":"designkwetu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bonjouridee.com\/en\/designkwetu\/","title":{"rendered":"Design Kwetu : a pallet woodwork startup in Uganda"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\" style=\"color: #000000;\"><b>  <\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The founders<strong> Winyi Patrick<\/strong> and<strong> Silas Byakutaaga<\/strong> studied Civil Engineering &amp;\u00a0 Architecture at University respectively. Having been great friends while at University it was a great honor to work together after school to make various wood products.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><em>&#8220;The idea came from the opportunity that I and my business partner, Silas Byakutaaga shared a house while at University Of\u00a0 Dar &#8211; Es &#8211; Salaam. We had our mattresses on Pallets and also sat on Pallets as we watched Soccer and other Tv programs. When we got back home and jobs were scarce to find we used our ingenuity to create wood works that in turn we would sell and make some money off&#8221;,\u00a0<\/em>explains <strong>Winyi Patrick<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\" style=\"color: #000000;\"><b>Your products and services\u00a0<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><em>Pallet beds<\/em><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><em>Pallet chairs<\/em><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><em>Wooden Beds<\/em><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><em>Wooden Bow &#8211; Ties\u00a0<\/em><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><em>Chopping Boards<\/em><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><em>Pallet Boardrooms<\/em><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Pallet Coffee Tables<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\" style=\"color: #000000;\"><b>Your success factors\u00a0<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Feedback from customers and communication to clients through Email &amp; Phone-calls\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\" style=\"color: #000000;\"><b>Your factors differentiating and disruptive compared to the existing\u00a0<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">We provide different ways to recycle wood, especially pallets &amp; other old building materials like iron sheets<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\" style=\"color: #000000;\"><b>Your business model\u00a0\u00a0<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">We simply build and innovate wooden concepts. Most of the clients come in wanting custom made items so it&#8217;s easy to advertise since they are able to have a personal fill of what is built from scratch.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">We also make wooden chopping boards, and wooden -Bowties that customers can access at <strong>&#8220;The Kona &#8220;<\/strong> shop, Bukoto street.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\" style=\"color: #000000;\"><b>A few words about your competitors<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">We do not have many competitors and if they are their mode of operation is different from us as we try to reuse materials like pallets &amp; also blend in designs like rustic looks.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\" style=\"color: #000000;\"><b>Your website\u00a0<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pictame.com\/user\/designkwetu\/245145127\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/www.pictame.com\/user\/designkwetu\/245145127<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The founders Winyi Patrick and Silas Byakutaaga studied Civil Engineering &amp;\u00a0 Architecture at University respectively. Having been great friends while at University it was a great honor to work together after school to make various wood products. &#8220;The idea came from the opportunity that I and my business partner, Silas Byakutaaga shared a house while&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":69147,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1737],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69096","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bonjouridee.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69096","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bonjouridee.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bonjouridee.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bonjouridee.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bonjouridee.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69096"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bonjouridee.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69096\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":213124,"href":"https:\/\/www.bonjouridee.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69096\/revisions\/213124"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bonjouridee.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/69147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bonjouridee.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bonjouridee.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bonjouridee.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}