Jascha Hunziker & Severin Bitterli, real entrepreneurs from Olten, Switzerland, impressed the jury and participants with their highly innovative product at the World Youth Entrepreneurship Challenge #WYEC of #NFTE in New York.
Read the quote from the two young entrepreneurs: „Sometimes the connections you can establish during a meetup like this are the real prize, because it’s the network that can turn an idea into a business. In the beginning, our idea was to generate energy from flowing waters that surround us in Switzerland, then we incorporated wind and human energy sources. In talking to different people from all over the world there were a lot of new use cases that we hadn’t thought about. In New York there was Joseph Mahoney who told us about using our idea for sailboats, which are now heavily dependent on solar power and have a problem when there are a few cloudy days on the open sea. Our concept fits right in there and can be an alternative source of power for these folks.“
We are grateful for the support of Gebert Rüf Stiftung
Anna-Leena Marti, Stephanie Alvarado, Susan Mueller, Rolf Schmid, Sandra Kamber, Leandro Bitetti, Manfred Pfiffner, Eveline Gutzwiller-Helfenfinger, Rolf Häner, Maja Zehnder, Pascale Vonmont, Thomas Heimann, Regula Buob, J.D. LaRock, J.D., Ed.D.
Für das szUDH, Georg Berger