Working in pyjamas, avoiding a traffic-filled commute and not having to share a public washroom all seem like pretty good reasons to want to run a business from home.
For 30-year-old entrepreneur Vincent Cheung (ECE PhD candidate) these are just a few of the perks he enjoys running his successful software company, Shape Collage, out of his Toronto home.
Cheung said he thought of the idea after working for Google in Silicon Valley a few summers ago. He took thousands of photos and couldn’t possibly print or post them all. Shape Collage solves that problem by creating collages with several photos in just seconds.
“People have used it in published books, calendars, billboard advertisements — any sort of thing where you would have something printed,” he said.
He said his business runs well from home because it’s completely virtual. People can purchase and download the software from his website, and the best part, Cheung said, is he can do his work from anywhere.
“I can do work here, I can go on a beach somewhere and code and send emails, whatever I need to do,” he said.
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