Category Archives: We're Talkin'
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 ago. Most [...]
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
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 [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
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 market, [...]
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