A Tale of Mind Petals (part 3)

Tuesday, June 20, 2006 at 11:29pm by David Askaripour in Featured Articles

This is part 3 of “A Tale of Mind Petals.” Jump to part 1 then part 2 to catch up on all the goodness.

So now it’s June 4, 2006 (the day before the launch) and I am sitting my room (Mind Petals headquarters) and I’m running through lines of code for the site, checking out functionality, design elements, and content. And what do you know? Just like that I accidentally erase a very important file containing about 16 pages of the entire site!

Shit! Fuck! Damn! Yup, that’s all I did for a good solid hour – curse up a storm. But actually I handled the situation quite well. I didn’t punch any holes in the wall, punch any faces, or punch anything! I just sat there thinking how I could correct this stupid mistake.

Luckily with the help of my developer I had the site back up and running within a few hours and the code was back and better than ever! Well at least I made such as mistake before the site was live, right?

That night around 12 AM I launched the site and Mind Petals officially became live. I was so happy to see what I have created in my head become something real, alive, and simply amazing.

Now it’s June 20th, roughly 2 weeks since Mind Petals has opened its doors and we are 14 members strong. Over these past 2 weeks, we have attracted some of the most powerful entrepreneurial bloggers on the net and we’re not stopping here!

Entrepreneurs from all over the world have been requesting to join the network, some have made it in and some haven’t. The ones who did were the most passionate about what they are doing and how the represent themselves through their blogs.

In a perfect world, every entrepreneur blogger who be allowed into Mind Petals, but what fun would that be? In doing that, we’d just be diluting the hell out of our focus to help entrepreneurs with quality, passionate, and powerful content – nothing more and nothing less.

The feedback we have received up to this point has been amazing and we are looking forward to rolling out a Phase II of the network in the next couple of weeks, so keep an eye out for some good stuff to come.

I’m just a young, motivated, hungry, and passionate 22 year-old entrepreneur living in NYC trying to change the world. Mind Petals was once just a thought and now it’s a reality. The power of the mind, amazing!

This is just the beginning of my vision for this network. I am working on a masterpiece. And with the help and contribution from our members, readers, and supporters, we can not fail.

I’ll leave you all with some pics of the official Mind Petals Headquarters – my room!

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