Special 7 - How to Become a Successful Water Entrepreneur - by 13 Industry Experts | (don't) Waste Water! | Water Tech to Solve the World

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with 🎙️ Antoine Walter, Podcaster in Chief and Senior Business Development Manager @ GF Piping Systems

💧 GF Piping Systems is the leading flow solutions provider, specializing in process automation solutions to ensure sustainable water management for life.

It's been an amazing year on the (don't) Waste Water podcast!

52 awesome guests shared a wealth of knowledge on the microphone, and we covered a vast array of topics. Too much to digest in 10 minutes? No worries, I cooked you a series of syntheses to give you a sound understanding of some key topics.

The deal? If you like it, please share it with your friends!

Do Water Entrepreneurs have the potential to change the World? Probably! But today, they often struggle to cross the Valley of Death - for many reasons.

Water Entrepreneurship is a beast of its own, as many of my guests already shared on this very microphone. Yet, there are some cheat codes to put all the odds on your side!

How to maximize your impact and make a lot of profit? I've asked the ones that experienced it first hand in the Water Sector. Like, advice from repeat entrepreneurs that successfully exited multiple water ventures. Or hints from the investment funds that finance their growth. Same with start-up accelerators, Water Industry advisors, and the best surveyors in this very special world.

Will you succeed if you apply all of this advice? No one can guarantee it.

But what's for sure is, that your water enterprise, your venture as a water entrepreneur, or your run as an impact founder won't be a success if you DON'T follow these hints.

You should probably invest 15' of your time for that 😉

➡️ Wanna dive deeper into the topic of Water Entrepreneurship? Listen to my full interviews with today's speakers:

🎙️ Walid Khoury - S4E5

🎙️ Paul O'Callaghan - S3E3

🎙️ Gaetane Suzenet - S2E14

🎙️ Jacob Bossaer - S2E20

🎙️ Lea Im Obersteg - S3E12

🎙️ Meena Sankaran - S3E7

🎙️ Luke Butler - S4E7

🎙️ Gilles Toussaint - S3E11

🎙️ Gilad Yogev - S2E7

🎙️ Aaron Tartakovsky - S4E3

🎙️ Ravid Levy - S3E2

🎙️ Alexander Loucopoulos - S3E14

🎙️ Wayne Byrne - S4E9

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About (don't) Waste Water! | Water Tech to Solve the World

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Currently in its 10th Season, the "(don't) Waste Water" podcast has already welcomed around 250 guests from Water Majors (SUEZ, Veolia, Jacobs, Xylem, Kemira, Evoqua, Aquatech, SKion Water...), Scale-Ups (Cambrian Innovation, Epic Cleantec, Gradiant, Liqtech, 374Water, Gingko Bioworks...), Start-Ups (Puraffinity, KETOS, 120Water, ZwitterCo, Membrion, Source...), Universities (Berkeley, the Columbia Water Center), Investment Funds (Sciens Water, Mazarine, Burnt Island Ventures...), Business Accelerators (Imagine H2O, Elemental...), Book Authors (Seth Siegel, David Sedlak, David Lloyd Owen...) or Market Intelligence Companies (BlueTech Research, Global Water Intelligence, World Bank, OECD, Isle Utilities...). Or simply water legends like Gary White, Mina Guli or Andrew Benedek!

On the "(don't) Waste Water" podcast, I strive to make the Water Industry easy to understand for everyone, starting with water professionals, executives, and investors. Hence, he opens the microphone to seasoned, inspirational water experts to discuss their field of excellence.

No one can claim an all-around in-depth understanding of a matter as complex as Water. But piece by piece, you can rebuild the puzzle. With curiosity, patience, and passion, Antoine Walter explores topics such as Advanced Treatment Technologies, Water-Energy Nexus (Hydrogen, Lithium...), PFAS removal, Nature-Based Solutions, Wastewater Reuse, Distributed Water Treatments, Water Finance, and Water Entrepreneurship.

I actually firmly believe that regular listeners of the "(don't) Waste Water" podcast may, in the end, claim a "Water MBA!"

A particular field of interest is how innovation forms, grows and gets widely adopted in a complex and conservative field like the Water Industry. This may be one of the keys to achieving the United Nations Sustainable Development Goal n°6 - #SDG6.

Oh, and in short, about me: I'm a water engineer turned avid student of the water business, market, finance, and tech. I'm married, a happy father of three, and I'm French (nobody's perfect 😅).