B Bitaboh
Physical product · Urban households and mini-supermarkets

Nile Nut Co.

Small-batch peanut butter made for busy urban households and neighbourhood retailers.

Where the venture is

Prototype: In progress

2 rounds recorded, latest is version 2. 3 activities are still open.

Venture journey

60.0% of the way through

Open full journey
A stage can be returned to. Design thinking loops, so the stage needing attention is the first one that is not finished, even when a later one is.
Empathize1 round, latest version 1
Complete
Define1 round, latest version 1
Complete
Ideate1 round, latest version 1
Complete
Prototype2 rounds, latest version 2
In progress
Test2 rounds, latest version 2
With the coach
What the numbers say

Worked out from what was actually built

Cost per One 500g jarUGX 13,008UGX 3,676 cheaper than V1
Yield96.0%25 kg in, 24 fit to sell
Price customers acceptedUGX 22,0009 of 12 said yes
Contribution per unitUGX 8,992Accepted price less the cost of making one
Money used

What developing this venture has cost so far

This is what was spent finding out. It is not the future cost of running the business, and the brief is firm that the two must not be merged.
Recorded expensesUGX 709,0006 categories
Spent on prototypesUGX 762,000Across 2 versions
Bought and not yet usedUGX 132,800Still on the shelf, not a cost yet
Where the money wentAmountShare
capitalUGX 240,00033.9%
developmentUGX 221,00031.2%
variableUGX 108,00015.2%
fixedUGX 60,0008.5%
batchUGX 50,0007.1%
unclassifiedUGX 30,0004.2%
The work

3 open, 6 finished

Price a heat seal for the refill tubs
in progressprototype
Quote a third run of fifty kilogrammes
plannedprototype
Take sealed tubs to two mini supermarkets in Bugolobi
plannedtest
Book the grinder at the Kawempe workshop for a dayTwenty two kilogrammes went in and nineteen came out fit to sell.
doneprototype
Interview eighteen households in NakawaFourteen mentioned oil separation without being asked.
doneempathize
Run a blind tasting at a Nakawa market stallSix of ten would buy at fifteen thousand, nine of ten at twelve.
donetest
Run a packaging session with two retailersRefill tubs beat sachets on cost per gram and on shelf space.
doneideate
Sort the interview notes into problems worth solvingConsistency beat price in every conversation but one.
donedefine
Visit four shopkeepers along the Ntinda roadThree had returned peanut butter stock in the past month.
doneempathize
Still to settle

1 thing nobody has confirmed

Readiness is not scored here. There is no rule set behind a score yet, and a percentage with nothing behind it reads as knowledge while being decoration.
Still an assumption: Retailers will stock an unknown brand without a listing fee