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. Optimalprint was founded in June 2006, providing printing services with online design templates and highly cost-efficient printing solutions. I had worked 7 years within TELE2 (www.tele2.com), a telecommunication company. For three years as the CEO of TELE2 Norway, a Telco roughly 500 million US Dollars in turnover for 2006. Tele2 was great fun but you worked without feelings related to shareholder ownership. A collegue of mine PÃ¥l, aat that time responsible for all BILLING operations at Tele2 in Sweden, Denmark and Norway, had been working with billing related issues for ten years and was on his way out. PÃ¥l decided to leave TELE2 and join Optimalprint. During 2002 I had worked with an top-notch programmer at TELE2, Mike from Estonia with Russain family. I presented our idea to Mike (still working at SKYPE) and also he decided to join the Optimalprint team. We are now in August 2006 and the workload is starting to build up. We are primarily trying to figure out which part of the value chain within online printing service should be our primary target and how would that affect our Internet platform and product offerings. So August to October is dedicated to identify softwares, suppliers within both digitial printing services and offset printing services, design agents, font suppliers, and lawyers to assist in writing contracts, distribution partners and logistical partners. In November I meet an old friend from Canada, Jean-Pierre (JP). JP was an exchange student at Stockholm School of Economics from McGill in Montreal, Canada. JP impress me with his strong focus on delivery and broad international experience and knowledge. JP lives in Canada but speaks Arabic, English and French fluently. November 2006 JP and I meet in Stockholm. JP was then working many hard hours at Deloitte Consulting in New York. JP wanted to go into a startup company by owning a part of the company. I presented to JP the Optimalprint idea with an online digital printing solution that we could easily spread geographically, meaning that Canada could quickly become an interesting market for us. JP decided to leave Deloitte Consulting in New York. JP came to Optimalprint in end of January 2007.