If necessity is the mother of invention, desperation could be its father.

By the time he was in 11th grade at Lower Moreland High School, (Michael Nemeroff’s) father was working with a friend selling T-shirts. Allan Nemeroff told his son they were losing accounts to competitors who were underpricing them, writes Diane Mastrull for philly.com. 

By that time the family had already lost its house to foreclosure due to the elder Nemeroff’s earlier business being burglarized and subsequently shut down. All of the above inspired the younger Nemeroff to keep moving forward, pushing his own entrepreneurial spirit to its limits.

Helping boost business recently: the Eagles. Within 48 hours of the team’s Super Bowl victory, Printfly had orders for about 10,000 Birds-related shirts. Two days before the big game, it had printed another 10,000 green Ts for the Sixers, who wanted to show their support for the Eagles by handing out shirts at the Feb. 2 home game, the story continues.

While unwilling to share specifics, chief operating officer Robert Levin, a serial entrepreneur with an investment background who joined Printfly in 2016 to help the company expand, said annual revenue growth has been about 35 percent to 40 percent the last few years.

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