iVentster: fund raising

I got approached by a friend today. He wanted to invest a 1000 bucks in this. Hes like this shit is gonna explode and i want in. I'm like dude this is a start up, dont put your lunch money here. And this dude is like no man, im working over the summer anyways so i can make it up. I want in.

Wow. Like friends putting in hard earned money through campus jobs is just mind blowing. I love ya all!! thanks for sticking with us so far. Although this semester is almost over, we promise some serious shit next semester. Stay tuned.

On a side note, the team is taking a trip to Boston this weekend. Investor meetings. We're gonna hit up Boston on Saturday and probably hit a party or two at Holyoke for the nite.
Ah fund raising aint as bad as they make it sound like.

the new iPod shuffle. Login to see what the fuss is about.

250,000

The 250,000th user has just signed up! That's number 17,083 for today :) Thank you everyone for all the luvin'. But keep your pants on.

Or off. They're not that much fun anyway.

everyone say bubyeee

Jazz will be leaving the team soon for the steps of Capitol Hill. They go a long way up to some Senator's office. I'm telling you, someday this kid will be in Congress. And he'll be making a lot of people very proud, including me.

Best of luck Jazz. It was awesome having you onboard. Start-ups. *sigh* There's no other place quite like 'em in all the world.

lil' fire throwing at porter apartments...
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iVent Me

Something cool; something wet; something wild has come your way.

As of now, you can show your Calendar to your friends in your AIM away message. You can also put your Calendar on your blog.





iVent Me . That's where it's at.

wisdom...

"Shit or get off the pot"

I heard this from Jaz today. Wow. It has to be one of the best lines i've heard ever. I guess thats our appraoch to running this whole thing. Either take your chance or let someone else do it. We're going to cross 200,000 registered users today with an event database of hundreds of thousands of events. We're working to give our events feed to sites so that even more people hear of the awesome events you guys post.
Do look out for the iPod Shuffle. We're giving free iPods on the site soon :p

Murtaza
(sorrie for the random post, but im writing a physics paper and i needed a distraction)

Tech Support

Someone came up with the idea of starting a tech support forum, and told us. We sort of think this blog, contact emails, and feedback forms do the job quicker, and serve as a virtual tech support medium. Go for it.

So if you're having any problems, drop us a comment. If it's not fixed within 24 hours, we'll change our name. Promise.

funniest response in days

Quite frankly, the reason I wanted to leave was because I couldn't find how to leave. I didn't like signing up forever. So I don't want to be on it. Hope that helps.
-Liam


*** customer support*** now i know what those outsourcing blokes in India feel like

funky event pics on iVentster, to match with your happening social life. You have one, right?

I gotta say I agree with the comment on First Mover Advantage. My company came up with the idea of thefacebook and iventster put together. Got 2 months into development and thefacebook appeared...needless to say we went down in flames.We reformed and came up with another idea like iventster....2 months into development. Looks like a repeat. Gotta love business.All I have to say is I don't know what took Zuckerberg and crew so damn long to figure out what that they had something, and needed to actually apply it to something besides social stalking.I agree Iventster has a long way to go , but I hope things work out for them. If Bo Peabody has contacted them like they say, then they have some luck on their side.
---------- extract from a comment posted on zackklien.com

Yup Bo made us an offer. We've said no for the time being. Sorrie for that. Maybe we can work together. We're totally up for working with people rather than against people.

Pakistani blood - no good

I went to donate blood at the American Red Cross camp. It was my first time. I was shitting myself. They asked me a bunch of questions, from have you paid for sex in the past 12 months to have you had unprotected anal sex.

Anyways she asked me which counties I have been to in the past 3 years. So i told her the Wales, Germany, France, Netherlands, Singapore and ofcourse Pakistan (thats where home is). When she heard Pakistan, her head turned up and she said, oh oh.

I was turned away. Apparently being in Pakistan even for a week in the past 12 months equates to Malaria. Heck i've lived there all my life! never had malaria nor has any one in my family. I felt like shit walking away while every one stared at the brown boy not being able to donate.

good times and bad times

Sorrrriee for all the bugs and down time. 99% of them have been fixed. We're on really awesome servers. Our DNS has resolved. Its all finally falling into place. Thank you for being so patient and understanding.

We spoke to a couple of guys today. Zack from collegehumor, Mark from thefacebook, Brain from EVDB, Matt from villageventures etc. A lot of people who run very successful sites have offered us help and support. Its nice knowing there are people always out there who will look out for you in bad times. For example, during the first couple of days of launch, our database server died down on us. Michael (from bebo.com) out of the blue helped Prosper optimize it and make sure we could scale to a much larger user base. We've sent him some nice choclates :p

I was smoking Hooka with my house mates today and one of them remarked, ' Murti, if we were in the 1700s, i can so see you running a plantation with a fuck load of slaves'.

DNS propogation

The site will be down for a couple of hours. This is due to the migration of our DNS server (boo yahoo once again). For some people in some parts of the world, the site still works. For most people it will be 2-3 hours before it will start working again. Sorrie for that.

iVentster.com becomes worlds largest network of college events

As of now, we have over 150,000 public and private events posted on the site, with 100,000 members. This number is increasing exponentially every day. In just over a week, iVentster.com has become the worlds largest network of college events and parties. We're expecting to hit a million events by the end of the week.
Thanks a lot to every one who believed in us and helped us. And a big boo to those who didn't (mainly over-smart investers). Lets keep the faith and lets keep trecking.

*muwah and hugz* to all those that rode with us this far. We will never forget the lovely support emails you sent and patience you showed with the bugs on the site.

yahoo sucks!

Sorrie for the 3 hours of downtime today. We got a butt load of traffic and yahoo bolted out on us. They stopped letting us use their DNS servers coz we had too much load. This is the stuff the attractive voice (when you sign up) wont tell you.

warms our day

From: mollie.t.fehlig@vanderbilt.edu

I'm way impressed...I filled out a survey and received a response within 3 minutes! I've never actually written to a site creator before, but after reading y'all's messages about how hard you've been working, I just wanted to say it's worth it! Amazing job. Thanks for your creativity and dedication. Keep it up!

peace
mollie

let's talk ya?

to make all your accounts more secure, we encypted our passwords database so that no one, not even us, has access to them. For some users however (about 1 in every 1000), the passwords are not accepted when they try to log back in. Thank you to everyone who reported this bug to us - as the Pimp's post shows, we've been working around the clock. Should be fixed in a few hours. If you still feel like giving expression to your years of built-up feelings, and have no friends to talk to, you can email us here support@iventster.com

The Art of War

Its 6 am. Prosper is on his way back home trying to get the FTP server running. Ali and Jaz have called it a night. I'm here in Jesup manning station. I can see it getting bright outside - soon it will be sun rise. I'm lucky I have only one class tomorrow. Ah! classes. They so are a thing of the past right now. Tonight was a great night - we got so much done. A special cheers to Mark!

So thats what it feels like being in a story book. I've heard stories of people pushing themselves, doing great things, sometimes making shit load of money while they are doing it. But its so different being in their position now. Its real. My arms are bruised - i got some strange cuts on them - they hurt. My back and head ache from lack of sleep. Im practically dropping dead right now. And yet there is some thing that keeps me ticking. 'Pehla Nasha' one of my favourite songs is playing in the background. I know this is going to work. Im waiting for Prosper to call and tell me to send out the invites. I wait.

And of my love life - my non existant love life. Gave it all up long time ago. Some one once told me, between school, a girl friend, and a company you've got to choose two. Jaz and Zaki are living testaments of this - I choose school and company. However as days pass it seems like one more choice will have to be dropped. I hope I don't have to make that decision this semester.

Prosper call man. Prosper has had it hard too. Hes taken more shit and crap than ive ever seen any programmer take and still pull through. I'd trust this dude with my life. Single handly hes done what teams of tens of programmers do in months. This dude is plain freaking awesome!

The clock is still clicking - Prosper still hasnt called. I'm getting worried. Its getting brighter and brighter. I've been in this lab (on and off) since 1 pm (17 hrs!). I went into physics, gave my quiz and left and came straight here. I probably got an A+ on the quiz. But my other classes im just failing

If there is one thing i've learnt, its never to give up no matter how royally fucked up the ass you are. Its all about striving - if you can give 200% knowing that the project might not live another day, you're on the way to some thing. The thing i HATE about most entreprenerus is that they are too smart for themselves. They calculate - maximize profit and plain think too freaking much. When you see a beautiful girl, you don't run calculations in your head. You freaking get out there and take your chance. Thats what ideas are about - taking chances. You can do as much intellectual mastubation you want but it wont get you anywhere. Some times one needs to take a leap of faith. Trust your guts. Get out there and be the person you dreamt of growing up into when you were a kid. Thats what we're about to do in the next 30 minutes. We don't know whether it will succeed or not.

Prosper just called. The script isnt running. Rackspace is messing up our servers. Hes calling them back. Its getting brighter. The maintaince staff have come in already (they woke me up while i was napping on the floor)

I spoke to the hosting guys. Some crazy stuff with our firewall and port 80 authorization. Its fully bright outside. I'm still waiting. Prosper i think has collapsed.

I have the courage to see this thing fail, but i dont have the courage to know that i did'nt give it every last breath I had...

I don't know what will happen tomorrow. All I know is today, we take our leap of faith.

whatever happened to neurons?

too much beer. that's what happened.

For the hundreds that have asked: we are not thefacebook. We are an event-networking site, not a social-networking site. What does that mean? Well, we made an entire site out of it didn't we? Go feel her out :p

back to skool...

School starts tomorrow. I am dropping courses. Jaz broke up with his gf. Ali cancelled his JP Morgan NY internship. Prosper said no to job offers. Boats are burnt.
and above all we didnt go to Mt. Holyoke as planned. We stayed and worked. The pieces are starting to come together. Bugs are almost fixed. Graphics are HOT! our vision keeps on getting bigger...
hang in there guys - by the end of next week this will become the biggest source of events out there. We already have 86,000 events posted on the site. We're aiming for 500,000 by the end of this week.

take it easy

Sunday Morning
-Maroon 5.

Video is cut from a live concert, so wait a few seconds after This Love and Sunday Morning will load automatically. Kick back, and take in the morning. It's Maroon 5 all week. From the folks at iVentster.

Streaming Music videos provided courtesy of MVC

*applause*

all hail Young, creator of the ^hip^ iVentster style. Trumpet blare. Drum roll.

It's official. iVentster is now cool.

Boo Hoo

Unfortunately, last night, our invite feature was shut down. We are trying hard, with one programmer and limited resources, to do what we can. Our vision was to create an original and innovative product and it is becoming more clear that this idea cannot succeed without your support. Please tell your friends and spread the word.

Thanks

SP2

I feel like Microsoft. I feel like Microsoft because we're having to put up a patch on the site; a few users on our site are going to have to re-register their accounts because of a database glitch. Here's what happened:

Last night we set up a separate testing site at http://...testing which was supposed to be a testing place for implementing new features. However, the database tables between the testing site and our main site got mixed up, and the site got confused. We just discovered the bug, and had to go through each of our 35,000 registered accounts to fix it. Though the bug is gone, a few accounts will have to be deleted, and we sincerely apologize for the inconvenience. An email will be personally sent out to each of the 50-odd users whose accounts need to be reset with instructions, and a phone number to call if they need further help.

Keep the peace. And please, don't kill us in our sleep. We're trying to do the best anyone can on spring break.