How did Paper Feet start? I had just graduated from The University of Michigan with a nuro-science degree but really had always been interested in entrepreneurship from my early days of mowing lawns and selling on eBay. My love for the outdoors was the real driver behind the creation of Paper Feet.  Paper Feet started in class as I tried to come up with a concept that brought nuro-science and art together to make paper thin shoes. I originally used the envelopes from my eBay business to make the shoes, which at that time literally looked like paper. The envelopes were a thin paper and living by water at the time I would cross the street and the shoes would fall apart. I wanted it to work better outdoors so I figured I would have to come up with something else for the shoes all together. There were at least 20-30 versions of the shoes as they evolved into the ones today that work in all conditions. Today’s shoes use billboard vinyl which I learned about from a contractor at the time who was quoting me on ways to repair my trailer’s roof. We then sold the 1st pairs at […]

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