HONOLULU (HI Now) - For local entrepreneurs, turning a great idea into a real business does not always mean leaving the islands. Wyatt Ferreira, president and co-founder of Haku Systems, shares how a local idea became a real path forward through the Hawaii Wave Dual Use Incubator at PICHTR. Haku Systems is a Hawaii-based professional services company building systems for the organizations that make communities work, from local small businesses and nonprofits to regulated industries and government partners, with a mission to keep technical talent home and put it to work on problems that matter here in Hawaii.
The Hawaii Wave Incubator gave Ferreira the structured feedback, peer networking and direct customer access that simply does not exist anywhere else in Hawaii. The program is not about showing up with a finished product. It is about getting honest feedback from people who have built companies before, hearing directly from the customers you are trying to serve and refining the idea before committing to the wrong path. Haku Systems works across a wide range of clients, from a Hawaiian language preschool to small businesses and organizations in regulated industries, with a local team building technology for the people and organizations that make Hawaii work.
Programs like Hawaii Wave are how Hawaii grows its own innovation economy, creating space for local founders to build companies here instead of having to leave the islands to find that kind of support. For more information, visit hakusystems.com!
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