At age 28, I had no retail experience, no consumer marketing experience and no real Internet experience. But I decided I wanted to work for myself. I felt starting a company would enable me to get the responsibility I deserved… — Mariam Naficy Copy Share Image
Over the years, I observed that many talented graphic designers, including those in my own family, had difficulty getting their designs to market. I thought it would be possible to hold open stationery design competitions where all designers could participate. — Mariam Naficy Copy Share Image
At age 28, I had no retail experience, no consumer marketing experience and no real Internet experience. But I decided I wanted to work… — Mariam Naficy Copy Share Image
I founded Minted in 2007 with the desire to use 'crowd-sourcing' to bring designs from the best emerging and independent designers in the world… — Mariam Naficy Copy Share Image
Unlike Etsy, which is all handmade, we print and ship the products, not the designers. We relieve the designer from having to make and… — Mariam Naficy Copy Share Image
Don't be afraid of developing a contrarian viewpoint on what type of person is perfect for your company as CTO and how you're going… — Mariam Naficy Copy Share Image
The Minted mission is to be a community that supports designers from all over the world and provides them with an opportunity to be… — Mariam Naficy Copy Share Image
Over the years, I observed that many talented graphic designers, including those in my own family, had difficulty getting their designs to market. I… — Mariam Naficy Copy Share Image
All of the designs on Minted are crowd-sourced from a global community of independent designers. We hold monthly design and art challenges that anyone… — Mariam Naficy Copy Share Image
The name Minted speaks to the freshness of our design - the fact that we are receiving thousands of new designs each week and… — Mariam Naficy Copy Share Image
Minted.com is both a global design community and stationery retailer. Independent graphic designers from all over the world submit designs to our ongoing design… — Mariam Naficy Copy Share Image
Excellent content is available online to everyone. I like it because it's a flattening of the playing field. — Mariam Naficy Copy Share Image
