2011 Semi Finalists

We are proud to announce the 2011 Semi Finalist of the SFU Student Entrepreneur of the Year competition.
4 of these prosperous entrepreneurs will take the grand stage on Saturday, November 19th to compete for the title of the
2011 SFU Student Entrepreneur of the Year and win over $5,000 in cash and prizes.

	Brandon Luu, founder of All-Court Stringing All-Court Stringing is a home-based racquet stringing and customization company serving Metro Vancouver. We specialize in professional tennis, badminton and squash stringing and repairs. Brandon (Owner) is a USRSA Certified Master Racquet Technician (MRT) and head stringer of All-Court Stringing. The US Racquet Stringers Association (USRSA) is a reputable organization recognized for certifying top stringers in North America. Brandon currently holds the highest certification level in the Lower Mainland for racquet servicing. Brandon has strung racquets for some of the best tennis players in the world including Marin Cilic, Juan Martin Del Potro, Ivo Karlovic, Sergiy Stakhovsky, Radek Stepanek, Bernard Tomic, Viktor Troicki, Fernando Verdasco, Mikhail Youzhny and many more. We will be opening our first racquet sporting goods store in May, 2012. Website: http://www.allcourtstringing.com/
	Justin Lee, founder of AX3 Multimedia AX3 Multimedia (AX3) is a collective with a focused mandate to promote and cultivate Asian pop culture and entertainment. This popular online magazine that we have created is supported by the collective talents of our creative in-house web, design, productions and operations staff. Together, we are all in charge of maintaining our online media platforms, and also providing quality media and production services to to our clientele. Our debut project, AX3’s online magazine (launched in July 2010 – http://www.ax3battery.com) strives to bring forward the most up-to-date and relevant news for an audience who is passionate about Asian lifestyle, pop culture and entertainment. Our website is updated multiple times a day, and it serves as a reputable and interactive platform that informs, inspires, and entertains a worldwide audience of over 45,000 unique visitors every month. Website: http://www.ax3multimedia.com
	Matias Marquez, founder of Buyatab Online Inc. Buyatab.com provides merchants the ability to sell instant gift cards online, via their website and Buyatab.com’s many distribution channels. Buyatab.com sells Tabs (E-Cards), which are: online electronic gift certificates, bought for specific merchants. Now consumers and business’ can instantly pick up the Tab for someone at anyone of our already recruited premiere Merchants all across North America by simply going online. The purchaser can either print the certificate and give it away as they wish or have it emailed to the recipient. Website: https://www.buyatab.com/
	Steph Sia, founder of Dolce Delights Dolce Delights is an independently-run cupcake business run by Stephanie Sia. We specialize in cupcakes, regular and vegan, and cater to the sweet-toothed market, young and old. What differentiates us from the rest of our cupcake competitors, is that we offer unique flavours, suitable for everyone. Plus we don’t pack the icing on. Dolce Delights is here to cater to your cupcake needs. Website: http://dolcedelights.ca/
	Ruiwen Chen, founder of ExpMap.com ExpMap.com provides leading web technologies for exploring location-and-time sensitive data. The web-based explorer developed at Expmap.com can efficiently support the visualization of millions of data points and thousands of daily updates. The business aims at providing fast and easy-to-use infrastructure for the exploration of massive and dynamically-updated data. It is widely applicable at many industries, including real estates, home rentals, event organization, advertising, store locators, etc. The technology we developed is being applied in RentHomeMap.com, which is a search engine for home rentals. It supports the visualization of millions of rental postings on a single map, and hundreds of thousands of updates per day. Website: http://expmap.com/
	Yigit Karakilic, founder of INQUE Design INQUE is a design firm with a focus on interaction and user relevance at its core. Website: http://www.inquedesign.com/
	Tyler Wenzel, founder of Overmined Entertainment Overmined Entertainment is a unique video-based journalism website and music distribution platform powered by a public, user-driven music database. Instead of targeting bands, like most online platforms, we actively strive through entertainment to connect and build a relationship with the larger audience – a band’s fans. Additionally, we allow music fans moderated control over the website’s database to support bands by keeping their profiles up-to-date. This database grants us information to power unique website features such as an auto-generated, smart playlist and customizable event calendar. We strive to complete 5 tasks: to turn music fan’s into active participants in the industry, to introduce an intuitive, open API database for the industry, to consolidate all band information, to create a community of music, and to offer bands services to help them market and strengthen their fan base. Website: http://www.overmined.com
	Kevin Zhang , founder of PeerPic PeerPic is an idea breakthrough – the first application in the industry applying peer-to-peer (P2P) networking in mobile devices. It is an application that allows for live streaming of photo contents around the globe. The concept is simple; photos are a better communication medium than words in the world of social networking. As the famous saying goes, “A picture is worth a thousand words”. Distinct from a static image or a video feed, the quick succession of images from a live photo feed create a unique medium in which to share one’s current field of vision. As the developers of PeerPic, our belief is that this medium has the power to change people’s perspectives on communication in their local communities as well as to the wider world. Website: http://www.peerpic.com/
	Arvand Alviri , founder of VenueWize VenueWize is a web and mobile application that lets event organizers collaborate on events, track guest value, access live guest information and stay green. Website: http://venuewize.com/
	Michael Cheng, founder of Witty Cookie WittyCookie is a revolutionary web development company that leverages the growing market of web templates while introducing a new payment method to alleviate the heavy upfront costs traditionally required for web development, thus making websites more accessible to individuals and small business owners. For only $20/month, WittyCookie builds websites and completes them in under 7 days. Our clients choose from hundreds of beautiful designs and we customize it for based on their needs. We offer designs from some of the best designers in the world so we can guarantee our clients will always receive top quality work without breaking their wallets. Website: http://www.wittycookie.com/