Fresh from a recent visit to a business training camp in Silicon Valley, California, the team is confident that with proper research and careful planning, they can successfully bring CADI to market. After all, its the product that saw them winning the third place prize in the Microsoft-sponsored Imagine Cup competition last year.

"It was a great experience because we met with very knowledgeable professionals from mostly business and entrepreneurial-focussed organisations, such as the Silicon Valley Association of Start-up Entrepreneurs (SVASE) and British Telecom (BT), who are part of the competition's innovation accelerator programme," said team member Ayson Baxter in a release to Career & Education. "They helped us understand how we can rapidly turn our invention into a product; so the trip was very successful."

The team noted that each day of camp saw them running through business pitch exercises and marketing skills; and culminated with an actual pitch to a potential investor...

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