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Art can pay: Minted raises $5.5M to expand graphic design and stationery business

Minted, a marketplace for community-sourced paper products like custom stationery and wedding invitations, has raised a big pile of the green kind of paper — the kind you can spend. For anyone whose parents told them to stop doodling Celtic knots or obsessively repetitive graphic designs and focus o
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Minted, a marketplace for community-sourced paper products like custom stationery and wedding invitations, has raised a big pile of the green kind of paper — the kind you can spend.

For anyone whose parents told them to stop doodling Celtic knots or obsessively repetitive graphic designs and focus on doing schoolwork so they could get a decent job, that must come as encouraging news.

“I love the creativity of the community,” cofounder Mariam Naficy told me today.

Read the full story: Art can pay: Minted raises $5.5M to expand graphic design and stationery business | VentureBeat.

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