#entrepreneurship
Designing, developing and managing a new business is about taking risks and requires a particular set of skills and attitudes. Because identifying an opportunity and assessing its viability is just the beginning.
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Find new work opportunities, contact collaborators, launch your personal project or meet potential customers. In a world dominated by technology, the on-line version of networking can give you a competitive advantage. This aside, it's a bad idea to underestimate the value of face-to-face contact.
David Almroth, Umar Chughtai and Sakina Turabali are an example of how to go into business sustainably and successfully. These three youngsters from Sweden, Pakistan and Sri Lanka dreamed that electrical installations could be inspected more efficiently and above all in a less harmful way to the environment. And, to do this, they founded Skyqraft, the startup that won the Startup Challenge launched by Iberdrola group, Resilience to Natural Disasters.
- Facebook "Our aim is to revolutionise infrastructure inspection, to make it safer, more efficient and more sustainable"
- Twitter "Our aim is to revolutionise infrastructure inspection, to make it safer, more efficient and more sustainable"
- Linkedin "Our aim is to revolutionise infrastructure inspection, to make it safer, more efficient and more sustainable"
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Four companies have been winners of the second Startup Challenge launched by the company: Photovoltaic panel cleaning.
Four companies were chosen to carry out their pilot projects in the Startup Challenge: Photovoltaic panel cleaning. We chatted with them to find out a little more about the projects that led them to win this challenge, which was looking for waterless, sustainable and low-cost solutions to improve the cleaning process for solar panels in large-scale photovoltaic projects.
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Brazilian company Concert Technologies is the winner of the Street Lighting and Cabling Detection Startup Challenge, thanks to its Imagery platform. We launched this challenge to find solutions to improve our public lighting infrastructure in Brazil — along with our subsidiary in the country, Neoenergia. Learn a little more about the winning project.