Thank you Mark Cuban

A few months ago, I had the idea to create this “wiki” space, though the idea was not yet fully baked at the time. In order to develop the idea, I began bouncing it off some people here and there. My wife, my brother Steve, a few friends of mine, and finally Mark Cuban, the famed owner of the Dallas Mavericks.

Actually he was the first person outside of my wife that I told. I sent the idea to his blog and hoped to get some response because I was from Dallas too (yeah right). I posted it right under his latest post at the time (2,433 Unread Emails, I Feel Your Pain), and expectedly received no response. This forced me to figure some things out on my own.

I began researching my plan, trying to figure out if this sort of thing had been done before, how to manage the software, and what sort of people would be interested. Eventually I found Netcipia.net among an array of free Wiki sites, and here we are today.

The idea is still not entirely baked, but progress is evident. I plan to grow membership slowly over the next year or so, and eventually offer custom player products such as jerseys, cards, posters and more. These kinds of things you just have to do on your own. For that Mr. Cuban, I thank you.

Cheers, and thanks for contributing,

John Jacobsen

~ by jacobsen77 on August 18, 2008.