Signing Up To Be a Business Owner - Rory Allen

from WNY Entrepreneur · host David Schaub

Rory Allen is a bootstrapping entrepreneur best known for Zoomcopy.com ( a graphic design and print shop) and ZoomBuffalo.com (an online print ordering tool) . In 2003, Rory started Zoomcopy.com with $3,000 in personal savings and a $5000 loan from his parents.  Zoom was started just offering document scanning, traditional print services like mailings, corporate stationery and stickers.  In the last 6 years ZoomCopy.com has become well known for large format printing such as banners and many of the murals around Buffalo. Allen and ZoomBuffalo.com are known for some of the more popular lawn signs popping up everywhere,  like the parody Allen Diggs campaign sign.

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Rory Allen is a bootstrapping entrepreneur best known for Zoomcopy.com ( a graphic design and print shop) and ZoomBuffalo.com (an online print ordering tool) . In 2003, Rory started Zoomcopy.com with $3,000 in personal savings and a $5000 loan from his parents. Zoom was started just offering document scanning, traditional print services like mailings, corporate stationery and stickers. In the last 6 years ZoomCopy.com has become well known for large format printing such as banners and many of the murals around Buffalo. Allen and ZoomBuffalo.com are known for some of the more popular lawn signs popping up everywhere, like the parody Allen Diggs campaign sign.

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