#7 Energy Aware Technology (Nov.8 Class)
Nov 9th, 2012 by Maggie Huang
(Feedback of class)
On November 8th, we had a special 101 class. Neither Jeff nor Paul were the speaker, but two of the Sauder graduated students. Janice Cheam’s presentation impressed me, not only because I am now doing a project about BC Hydro’s Smart Meter. She told us about the process of starting a business. She was a brilliant student in UBC who won a lot of case competitions. Instead of just getting a job after graduated, she was brave enough to start her own business. She has no experience for her to get aid from the bank. Most of the foundation money was the prize of winning the case competitions. However, she got an Angel investor to support her business. The development is very difficult which took Janice and her team a year to prepare.
After researching, I found out that Energy Aware Technology, Janice’s company, is the 2006 BC Hydro Sustainability prize winner. The selling point of the product is the environmental friendliness. Nowadays people care more about environment and the energy. Not because of the energy is expensive, but just this is a right thing to do. Starting a business, to be successful, has to match the market trend and the customer’s taste.