Saasha Celestial-One, Olio: How to build a successful app

The Small Business Sessions, Enterprise Nation's podcast, is back for a eighth exciting series of inspiring entrepreneurial stories and expert business tips! The podcast is powered by the business.connected online training programme and our partners Vodafone Business, Constant Contact, JP Morgan and Dropbox.

Joining freelance journalist Dan Martin for the seventh episode is Saasha Celestial-One, co-founder of local sharing app Olio.

The idea for Saasha's groundbreaking business came about when her business partner Tessa Clarke trawled the streets looking for someone who might be able to use her spare food when she was moving house.

The two friends tested their solution in a WhatsApp group for neighbours in North London, and it's now an app used by millions around the world for finding what they need and sharing what they don't with local people.

In an inspiring episode, Sasha and Dan discuss:

• tips for growing a successful app
• how to use business to benefit the environment
• the UK as a good place to grow a technology company
• how Saasha funded the company
• running a business with a co-founder
• how to build partnerships with big organisations
• how businesses can continue to innovate

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 The business.connected hub is a free online training programme of workshops, webinars and e-learning modules designed to help businesses go digital and adopt new technology.

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