400: Side Hustle Entrepreneurship - Akarsh Vinod
Akarsh Vinod started a wireless speaker company with a mission to make listening easy.
Akarsh shares his journey that was inspired in 2017 and has finally resulted in his speakers being produced and ready for shipment this year. A major difference in bringing a consumer hardware item to market is the amount of work that goes into creating the concept, coming up with a prototype, and approaching the big boy manufacturers to help produce it.
Some of Akarsh's tips to getting started include:
- Learning to de-risk
- You don't have to commit all-in to scale
- Learn the language and know the space
- Earn trust
Want to contact Akarsh? Email him at akarsh@dioconnect.com.
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Akarsh is the founder of Dio, a home audio company aiming to reshape the way we listen to our audio at home and use connected devices. Dio recently launched the Dio Node: the world's simplest, most flexible, and most affordable multi-room speaker on the market - finally making it easy to listen to your audio all over the home, hassle-free. Akarsh is happy to share his insights on how he bootstrapped the company, what it takes to build an IoT consumer hardware device, and his lessons starting a company and building a brand.
