For many years the road network connecting Nairobi and Thika,an industrial town about 40km north-east of the Kenyan capital was known for notorious traffic snarl ups. Businesses avoided that part of town and land prices stagnated. Despite this, one man held onto his property along the route. Gerald Taylor, managing director of Willmary Development, says his family kept the land his grandfather bought in Kenya in the 1930s because it didn’t make sense to sell.  His gut instinct proved correct.  For Entrepreneurs, Timing Is Crucial