Queen's University Entrepreneurs' Competition "one of the longest-running and best-known undergraduate business plan competitions in the world" according to the
New York Times, announced this year's winners at private ceremony last weekend. Administered by students at
Queen's School of Business in Kingston, Ontario, the competition received entries from all over the world. But it was Southern Ontario native Christopher Carmichael from Waterloo's Wilfrid-Laurier University who walked away with the grand prize of $15,000 for his business
BuildMyLanyard.
"Visitors to BuildMyLanyard.com can create a lanyard design, then apply it to a material of choice, like eco-friendly bamboo or plain polyester, adding accessories like U.S.B. memory sticks, name tags, card-key covers and key clips. BuildMyLanyard exceeded $50,000 in revenue in the year preceding the competition, with early customers including the Canadian mobile communications company Telus and the TEDx conferences in Vancouver and Toronto."
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