Why is this new version called “Cheetah”? Simple. The Cheetah is the fastest animal in the world. It’s one of the most opportunistic, innovative, and curious animals in the animal kingdom. Young entrepreneurs have been moving at such a rapid rate with innovative startups, creating new business models, and disrupting the status quo, that we have become the new Cheetahs of the Entrepreneurship Kingdom.
As we continue to carve out niches, create new business environments, and push forward with our dreams, we have become a force that can’t be ignored. In that light, as one of the main upgrades in Cheetah version, we have opened up Mind Petals to the entire community of young entrepreneurs who have stories, insights, lessons, and experiences to share with the world.
You can become a part of the community by submitting an article and if we feel that it can help young entrepreneurs in some capacity or another, then we’ll publish it and include a short one sentence bio (w/ 1 link) on the footer of your article.
Though anyone can contribute an article, it “must” stay true to the spirit of Mind Petals and remain focused on “Young Entrepreneurs.” Young Entrepreneurs, from the beginning, have always been the focus of Mind Petals and it was always remain that way – forever.
We know that many Young Entrepreneurs have been active members of the community by visiting the site everyday to read new content and get new ideas/information to apply to your own business.
Well, with Cheetah version, you can now better connect with the entire Mind Petals community members with our forum, MP Nation. We kept is nice and simple with the forum, focusing on categories that we thought young entrepreneurs are most likely to relate to their ventures – bootstrapping, marketing, funding, questions, startups, life, mp garage (open forum to relax and discuss random ideas/thoughts), and a forum to discuss our first book, “Young and Hungry: The New Entrepreneur.”
We hope that you take the time to register to MP Nation and become more involved with the community. We know Young Entrepreneurs have a lot of ideas, insights, and experiences to share with the world, so head on over to MP Nation and unleash yourself!
And, of course, the book! Over the past couple of months Mind Petals Contributor, William Quisenberry, and I, David Askaripour, have been working on an e-book that dives into many of the issues that we’ve faced as Young Entrepreneurs running startups. The book has been appropriately named, “Young and Hungry: The New Entrepreneur.”
We wanted to deviate from the traditional entrepreneur-focused books out there that have flooded the market with theoretical BS, technical mumbo-jumbo, and all sorts of unnecessary information that really doesn’t relate to Young Entrepreneurs in any way.
The focus of the book was to stay true to real events and experiences that Young Entrepreneurs are likely to face sometime throughout their journey. Things like, talking to your parents about becoming an entrepreneur, building a team, getting your site developed, networking, working with people much older than you, bouncing back from failures, how to manage your time, making time for family and friends, and overcoming your fears. This book will be a great read and we hope that you find it helpful.
So there you have it, Cheetah has been unleashed into the World Wide Web of Young Entrepreneurs and we’d greatly appreciate any feedback on the upgrade. Ideas, found bugs, issues, comments, anything that you’d like to share with us. Indeed, there are some bugs that we’re in the process of squashing (so please be patient). What you have to say is important to the growth of Mind Petals and will help shape the future of our beloved community.
Rock on!
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Sound slike great updates for a great site. A tip for the book – you could add it to Lulu so we could buy it and read it anywhere no matter if we have a computer there or not.
David,
Looks good
just one thought I had, I think it looks like you are straying away from the “network” essence of the Mindpetals Network of entrepreneurial contributors but still I like the forum and like the overall concept. Best of luck, and im sure ill see you on the forum.
Best,
Scott
Looks good. Congrats on the progress. However I’m with Scott I really enjoy the network aspect.
Congrats.
Hey Guys!
Thanks so much for the feedback and comments about the upgrade. Much appreciated. Yes, I will admit, the upgrade has less or a “network” feel to it. I did that because I wanted to breakout of the “network” feeling and breakout into a “community.” I wanted to tend to the tons of young entrepreneurs out there who have things to share, but don’t necessarily have a blog. This new version takes care of that problem. And though it make — at first — look like a blunder or, perhaps, a dilution of the initial aim of MP, it will have the opposite in time. Trust. Pelle, you can purchase the book from lulu here: http://www.lulu.com/content/684938
Thanks everyone!
I meant as a printed book – that one is only a e-book – right?
Pelle, you should be able to purchase and print out the PDF. We currently aren’t selling a printed book version (maybe in the future
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David,
Congrats – the site looks great. I’m glad to see it all come together since the preview I got a few weeks back. Keep the good stuff coming.
Adam
Thanks Adam, I really appreciate that!
David: Yes, now I see that I yet again should have researched before I said something. 30 pages – that’s definitely affordable to print on my own printer
Nice to have a book that small about something that interesting. Size doesn’t matter
Thanks Pelle. I really hope that you like the book!