Episode 2: Developing Your Idea (Lean)

Building partnerships as a start-up business is one of the hardest things to do, you have to strategically position yourself in a way your business can be a small plugin to an established business. How you approached a business to partner with you is very important if you haven't created enough results as a business, Obed talks about some of the practical steps you can take to be recognised by established businesses.

This episode talks about why Obed Lied to his mum for a year about starting a business, during his second year he convinced his University to allow him to go on a placement year to fully dedicate his time on starting a business.  The conversation he had with his mum about his placement year was "he is working for a company" because he felt she wouldn't have supported his journey to entrepreneurship. 

This episode about the hard truth to why most us feel we are not where we should be in live in regards to business or career. It's about time we look within ouselves to be the change we want to be.  Its about time we align our ambitions to our daily events and decisions. Seek support, we all need somebody to help us.

Working with website developers can be a stressful phase in business. There are so many factors that can cause this. One of the most common issues are language barrier, lack of detail in project scope or poor project management.  Obed gives practical tips on how to ease this process or phase of your business development. Remember to take notes.

Product develpoment is one of the most important phases in business. It is the difference between your customers returning to buy your product/services again or not. Obed shares his own process that he uses to help him develop his ideas. His model isn't text book, he encourages you to develope upon his model to work for you as an anspiring entrepreneur.

Welcome to the first episode of .IO PODCAST, .IO stands for [INPUT & OUTPUT.  In this episode Obed gives practical steps to building a meaningful relationship as a startup, he first talks about his time at University and working for small businesses in Leeds and goes on to talk about how to network effectively.