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Paper Divas

Prior to starting Tiny Prints, Inc., I worked for my wife at her own start-up, Beau-coup.com. Before that, I helped build the T-mobile Sidekick at Danger, Inc. Between 1998 and 2000, I feverishly studied everything about the internet and e-commerce at business school in Silicon Valley, and was dismayed to find that the internet bubble burst almost exactly on the same day as my graduation. Before heading off to business school, I tried to start an e-commerce company selling care packages to the parents of college students—I failed miserably, but the experience gave me the best business lesson I've learned to date. My first job out of college was as an investment banker at Morgan Stanley, doing my part to help pave the path for the biggest financial crisis of the twenty-first century. Between 1990 and 1994, I studied economics at the University of Chicago, and before that I ran my own landscaping business, moving business and tennis racquet stringing business—I guess you could say I'm a fan of entrepreneurship.