Professor Mukila Maitha from Harper College in Palatine, Illinois talks with The Savvy Entrepreneur about the many business opportunities that drones will offer. Harper is one of a small number of colleges & universities with a drone certificate program.
Drones, or unmanned aerial vehicles, have been around for a few decades and were used mostly in military operations. Today's drones come in a huge range of sizes, and their uses in commercial applications are limited only by people's imaginations.
The most popular uses for drones today are in photography, real estate, and monitoring. Soon, however, they will be used commonly for deliveries of all sorts. In Singapore, they are even being tested to carry people — look out, Uber & Lyft!
Mukila & I chat about some of the many, many current and future business opportunities that drones present. And many of these are suited to small businesses. Drone business opportunities including building and repairing drones, as well as programming them. And most needed of all are people to create the concepts for using drones, and people to translate the data from the drones into useful graphics or other presentations.
The people, Mukila says, who can straddle 2 different areas of expertise, such as environmental monitoring and drone programming, or photography and real estate, will have many drone business opportunities.
But as you listen to Mukila start to envision our drone future, you will start to realize drone business opportunities are everywhere, and present lots of opportunities to people with interest and skills (or willingness to learn those skills).
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