Shopify have announced the winners of the 2011 Build-a-Business Competiton. The competition was entered by over 3,000 entrepreneurs who created brand new online stores and sold over $12 million during the competition period. The grand prize is $100,000 cash, along with VIP trips to New York City and San Francisco to meet with Timothy Ferriss, Seth Godin, and Gary Vaynerchuk.

The best part is the Opena® Case won it's category! Whoooo hoooo!!! We are super stoked to have taken out the category prize for the “Other” section of the competition and couldn't have done it with out the support from our great customers! The category prize is pretty awesome too with some decent prize money, a VIP trip to New York, a power session to Seth Godin and a heap of Google AdWords credit!

It’s also worth noting that 3 out of the 8 winners were funded on Kickstarter which shows just how may great Sartups are emerging from Kickstarter. We also love the fact that only 8% of the entrepreneurs who entered the competition were from Australia, but that 38% of the winners are Australian including Flock-stocks, My Footy Boots and Opena Case. Aussie, Aussie, Aussie, Oi, Oi, Oi!!!