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!!!

 If you Wakeboard, are an Aussie, then you'll know Boarder Magazine.... And we're in the current edition! 

 

Google tells us it says: "Fancy a beer, but no NC in the area? Now creates iPhone Remedy: This case
has a retractable bottle opener. By 29 € on www.openacase.com

We know it's been a long time coming but today we received our final off tool samples in the final production colours and they look awesome! The last few weeks we have been working with our manufacturer to fine tune the production tool, making sure the blade slides smoothly in and out of the case. The original production samples we're way too tight so we had to open up the blade cavity a little to give it more room to move. Unfortunately this process took a little longer than we originally anticipated but we've got it sorted now and we've given the go ahead to start production! Whoo hoooooo!

We've been informed that manufacturing and assembly will take around 10 - 15 days to complete, so assuming everything goes to plan...(fingers crossed) we're only 2 weeks away from shipping production units!

Thanks again for your patients and support. Don't forget to like us on facebook and follow us on twitter.

Cheers

Chris and Rob
The Opena Team

 

We we're featured in Disajin:The leading magazine in Scandinavia on Art & Design. 

No idea what the article says but it looks pretty cool!

 

On Friday the 8th of July our Kickstarter project was completed and we raised well about our goal of $15,000! The good news is the Opena is now GO! With the additional money we raised we are now able to offer the Opena in white as well as black. We're busy working hard getting the Opena's manufactured to the highest quality and working with fulfillment companies to make sure we can get the Opena's out to all our kickstarter backer and people that have pre-ordered through this site. Keep checking this site as we'll keep you updated with the progress.

The Opena was featured in the Age this morning. (One of Australia's biggest newspapers!)