Dove Byrne attended U.C. Santa Barbara where he received a B.A. in Political Science with an emphasis in International Relations. He earned an M.B.A. from Cal Poly Humboldt in 2001. He is a self-trained expert in QuickBooks and launched the Internet division, Wine Craft Cabinets in 2000 while attending Cal Poly Humboldt.

In 1999, he joined Jason Conkey (Yahoo!) to create two companies. The first, Future Magic Games, is a board game design company that has published two board games: Darter and Dragons of Kir. The second company, Jada Communications, was an Internet service provider and web design company.