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Amidst a global recession and an intensely competitive instrument sales industry, a young Ontario student decided to build his own guitar store.
He used the Internet, a bank loan and his BlackBerry.
And now, as Observer Radio News’ Jesse Mirsky reports, he’s built a customer base large enough to not only pay off his costs, but to even turn a profit.