coronavirus pandemic, 19-year-old business student Cole Starkman was sent home from his residence at Wilfrid Laurier University.With the summer job market drying up, Starkman knew he wanted to make the most of his four months off and didn’t want to just sit idle during the COVID-19 lockdown.
Presidents of Waterloo, Wilfrid Laurier universities offer plans for fall semester “I sort of thought, ‘Let’s start a business,'” Starkman said. “Obviously, in quarantine, in COVID, something actually physical and brick-and-mortar won’t really work, so I thought, ‘OK, e-commerce.'”Then it came down to figuring out what he wanted to sell.“I thought, ‘What’s going on right now in the world?’ Obviously, the pandemic,” Starkman said. “How can we utilize.