Online shipping idea wins BYU Web Business Competition. eTake

With an idea designed to revolutionize online shipping, Marriott School student Matthew Pickard won the first annual Brigham Young University Web Business Idea Competition and a $3,000 cash award.WEBIC is a new competition sponsored by the Rollins Center for eBusiness promoting the use of the Internet in entrepreneurship. Pickard’s business idea, eTake, is a Web site used to bid on shipping rates offered by individuals, not companies.

"eTake will connect people who need goods moved to a location with people who are going that direction anyway," said Pickard, an MBA student from Green River, Wyo. "My father and I came up with this idea last year while talking one evening. Ever since, I have wanted to develop it and try it out."

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