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Shoeboxed Interview with Mind Petals

Describe Shoeboxed in one sentence Shoeboxed.com is an online service that allows people to easily and securely manage their e-mail and paper receipts, helping them take a big step towards achieving financial organization and consumer confidence. How did you guys get started? Taylor Mingos, our founder, started actively working on the project about 9 months [...]

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EducateDeviate Interviews David Askaripour

Educate Deviate, and blog focused on alternative education, recently interviewed me. Our discussion mostly revolved around entrepreneurship and how students can become entrepreneurs without feeling tied down to what their parents think or how well they perform in school. Check it out: here

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Interview with Jay Phillips, open source entrepreneur

Jay Phillips is a young entrepreneur who doesn’t wait for success to find him, he goes out and makes it happen. He saw an opportunity in the VoIP sector and developed Adhearsion, an open-source framework that’s on the verge of revolutionizing the entire telephony industry. Tell me about Adhearsion. How did you get it started [...]

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Another College Classified Gets Added to the Mix: CollegeMedium

A few weeks back I interviewed the founder, Daniel Scudder, of college classified site Dormitem and since then, guess what, I have come across another college classified site known as CollegeMedium. At this rate, there will be more college-based classified sites on the net than we can handle. But the question is: Which site is [...]

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Meet the Mind Petals Columnist

I remember the first day that I told myself that I wanted to become an internet entrepreneur: it was Jan 1 2004 I was 20 years-old. Since that cold winter day, I never looked back and entrepreneurship has become a part of my life in so many ways. Most of you already know my story, [...]

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The College Textbook Market and Daniel Scudder of DormItem

No college student entrepreneur has been successfully able to create a nationwide service that allows a critical mass of college students to sell textbooks, find apartments, or sell other various dorm-related items to students within their school. Many of us have tried, but there hasn’t been anything to talk about yet. Craigslist still dominates the [...]

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Taking a Walk Down Trizoko Lane

Wow, I can’t get enough of the Trizoko crew. Their upfront and down to Earth approach to entrepreneurship continues to bring a smile to my face as I read their content on a daily basis. They aren’t trying to impress you or even convert you to their ways of looking at the business world; they [...]

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Mind Petals gets Juxtaviewed!

Juxtaviews, a new site covering the hottest news on the web, has just launched the most comprehensive interview that I have ever given. Wow, they really dug deep into my head and I held nothing back. From the time I started my first venture roughly 3 years ago to the starting of Mind Petals, it’s [...]

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Young Entrepreneur: Josiah Mackenzie

Josiah Mackenzie isn’t scared to accept the rough and rewarding life of a young entrepreneur. At just 20 years-old, Josiah isn’t sitting on the sidelines waiting for success to find him. Quite the opposite. He’s pushing forward with his ventures and making things happen. He believes that the best thing that any entrepreneur can do [...]

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