Great exposure with CCTO

Since winning the CA Clean Tech Open we have had a lot of exposure that we would not have gotten otherwise. For example, this evening, I was invited to give a presentation on BuildFast House Kits to a green entrepreneurship class. Ron Pernick, Co-founder of Clean Edge and Coauthor of the book The Clean Tech Revolution, is teaching a class on clean-tech entrepreneurship at Portland State University. Ron had heard that we won the CA Clean Tech Open, and he wanted to feature BuildFast as an example of a promising clean tech company. It started as a request for some slides on our business, but I ended up giving our abbreviated investor pitch through his cell phone to the class. This is great for me because it gives me a chance to practice the speech and answer questions.

Another great bonus was talking with Dexter Guantlett with Green Empowerment, which focuses on providing renewable power to the developing world. We hope we have the opportunity to work with them by incorporating photovoltaic PV solar or micro turbines into our HouseKits. We are really excited about the potential.

I want to talk more about the importance of passive solar design and active renewable energy in upcoming posts, and I would like to get people's thoughts. For now, I just want to encourage anyone with a green business idea to enter into the CCTO. It has been a great learning experience and we have gotten great exposure within the industry.