Oshoma Zekeri, Yoma James Kukor and Charles Ofoegbu
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The COVID-19 pandemic has led to many occasions being placed on maintain. Nevertheless, because of the vaccine rollout, we’re now at a degree the place the U.Ok. will see a social growth with many rescheduled and overdue occasions resuming over the approaching months. Nevertheless, an issue that has lengthy existed is discovering distributors to your occasions. Three entrepreneurs; Oshoma Zekeri, Yoma James Kukor, and Charles Ofoegbu are searching for to repair this downside by making a stress-free, inexpensive, on-demand app referred to as Vendoir the place you’ll be able to uncover and ebook distributors resembling DJs, photographers, or caterers.
Early Beginnings
Zekeri, who’s the CEO of Vendoir moved to the U.Ok. from Nigeria for college and after college took up a job working in Well being & Security for a number of outstanding companies resembling Barclays and CBRE. In 2016, he needed to manage his wedding ceremony and his expertise trying to find distributors was a nightmare. He had an extended checklist of cellphone numbers however had no actual option to decipher who was good and the way a lot he ought to be paying them. He tried discovering an app or web site on the time that may assist him with the method however in the end none offered a adequate answer and his solely various was to spend hundreds of kilos on an occasions organizer. This complete course of led to him developing with the thought for Vendoir, a “one-stop answer for customers to search out distributors resembling DJ’s, Photographers and Videographers and for distributors to handle their bookings, charges and market themselves”.
He did a big quantity of analysis however on account of job and different commitments he sat on the thought for a couple of years, nevertheless, in early 2020 he determined that a great way to get the venture going and cut up the workload could be to convey different folks on board. In his quest to search out folks to work with Zekeri reached out to his community searching for a CTO (Chief Technical Officer) and was put in contact with Ofoegbu, a developer who has constructed many apps and labored as a software program engineer for over 10 years. Ofoegbu beloved the idea as he was confronted with the identical ache factors and thought this was a great alternative to resolve these points.
A short time after, Zekeri met up with Kukor who had been a colleague that he saved in contact with by enjoying soccer collectively on weekends. They met as much as talk about investing within the inventory market nevertheless after Zekeri shared the thought for Vendoir this topic took over the dialog. On the time Kukor was operating an occasions promotion enterprise organizing membership nights in London and was confronted with most of the points Zekeri was making an attempt to resolve by Vendoir regularly which meant he instantly understood the issue. He was introduced on as Chief Working Officer and the trio began engaged on making the app a actuality.
Vendoir App
Courtesy of Vendoir
Constructing Vendoir
Constructing Vendoir throughout COVID-19 has meant the trio have been working remotely since 2020. Juggling this alongside their day jobs has meant frequent night calls into the early hours of the morning discussing technique and researching what customers could be searching for within the answer they’re offering. The app they’re constructing can be a market the place customers can seek for distributors on-demand based mostly on location and dates and discover out by critiques whether or not they’re good and well worth the value. The distributors may even profit from the app as direct comparability will make it simpler for them to cost themselves appropriately and thru a set of options, the app will supply distributors the chance to simply accept dependable bookings, market themselves, obtain prompt notification, and see the analytics behind their web page “in the end it would enable distributors to take management of their charges and develop their enterprise in a way more environment friendly vogue”. This may even give new entrants, sole merchants, and freelancers the chance to community and scale their enterprise with out spending a penny on advertising.
The trio are near launching their on-demand app simply in time for the top of lockdown within the U.Ok and subsequent month can be launching a crowdfund marketing campaign with Crowdcube to contain the group that may profit from the app as early of their journey as doable.
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