About LinkedIn Local Nairobi - The Survival Kit

Survivors’ Toolkit: Lessons from Thriving and Failed Ventures

In Nairobi’s fast-moving startup and professional landscape, the line between thriving and failing can be razor thin. Every founder, intrapreneur, or ambitious professional has faced that moment: Do you push forward, pivot, or shut it down? This October, LinkedIn Local Nairobi brings those stories into the open: the scars and the win,  in a session designed to equip you with a true survivor’s toolkit.

Through raw conversations and practical strategies, you’ll learn how to spot early warning signs before they spiral, salvage a struggling venture, and scale sustainably without losing your team or yourself. Expect concrete tools like cash flow triage checklists, metrics that forecast collapse, low-cost ways to test product-market fit, hiring red flags to watch for, survival funding options, and even a playbook to rebuild reputation after failure.

Our speaker lineup features battle-tested voices: from serial founders who scaled from scratch, to a corporate executive who pulled off a turnaround, to a founder who rebuilt after a shutdown. They’ll share the pivots that saved businesses, the signals they wished they’d caught earlier, and the lessons that can save you years of costly trial and error.