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Nishant Shah and the trouble with buying one sign
A car wash owner’s awkward search for banners became the starting point for Group Bayport. Nishant Shah has spent the years since connecting online choices to the factories, people, and delivery promises behind them.
MOO Made the Business Card Worth Keeping
A failed social calling card became a business built on paper, personality and letting customers choose. Twenty years after launch, MOO is taking that idea into branded merchandise - with some hard lessons from the factory floor.
THE/STUDIO
THE/STUDIO is a custom product manufacturing and on-demand merchandising platform that connects brands, creators, and organizations to a global network of vetted factories. Founded in 2013 as a custom patch shop, it now produces 300+ categories of custom goods - pins, patches, apparel, coins, drinkware and more - with no minimum orders, fast turnaround, and software that compresses the traditional sourcing process from months to days. The company positions itself as a modern, ethical answer to slow legacy manufacturing, serving over 100,000 customers including Nike, Adidas, Netflix, Uber and the Met Store.
GearLaunch
GearLaunch is a print-on-demand commerce platform that lets entrepreneurs design, sell, and ship custom products without holding inventory or paying upfront. Sellers handle the creative and marketing; GearLaunch handles production, printing, fulfillment, payment processing, and worldwide shipping across a catalog of thousands of customizable items.
Zazzle
Zazzle is a Redwood City based online marketplace that lets anyone design and order custom products - from invitations and t-shirts to home decor and corporate gifts - manufactured on demand. Founded in 2005 by Robert, Bobby and Jeff Beaver, it pairs a creator community of independent designers with proprietary on-demand manufacturing.