Startup Dorm Room

TruePani | A World Without Water (#7)

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Shannon Evanchec, CEO and Co-founder at TruePani, reflects on her days in university turning her research project into a startup. Evanchec won the People's Choice Award in the Georgia Tech InVenture Prize during her undergraduate in Environmental Engineering at Georgia Tech with her product detecting microbial contaminants in drinking water. Now, after learning the not-so-graceful art of the pivot, Evanchec's consulting company has led to safe drinking water for hundreds of thousands of people in the United States. Imagine what it would be like to go a day without clean drinking water. Well, Evanchec believes that no one should have to experience this reality. As a social entrepreneur, she is one small force in the combined global effort to ensure every person has safe water to drink.

TruePani's story gives great insights into the secrets of the Startup Dorm Room, including: 

  • Starting a social venture. To go for-profit or non-profit?
  • Leading as CEO. Leaning on and learning from your team and growing revenue.
  • Dealing with failure and learning from your mistakes.
  • Choosing investors that believe in your founding team.
  • Identifying if what you are solving is actually a problem or just a circumstance.
  • The freedom of staying humble and acknowledging it is a combined effort to change the world. 

    • Book Recommendations:

    • "The Mom Test"
    • "When Helping Hurts"

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