Build for Earth Learnings – How to Make a Startup a Success Fast
In this chapter, we will summarize the takeaways from Build for Earth winners. We will distill a handful of key ingredients that are imperative for the success of hackathon winners for solutions that come from hackathons and make the journey into a thriving start-up. We will share the start-up journeys of three winners from our hackathons and solutions that are now on the market: RecyBlock, Coronafree, and BrightAct.
In this chapter, we will cover the following main topics:
- General takeaways of successful hackathon winners
- Recy-Block, winner of Hack for Earth at Expo 2020 – example 1
- BrightAct, the winner of Hack the Crisis Sweden and EUvsVirus in 2020 – example 2
- Coronafree, the winner of Hack the Crisis Sweden in 2020 – example 3
- Key factors for the success of hackathon winners
The general takeaways shared in this chapter from hackathon winners include insights...
