We went out for Sushi last night (Ken, my wife Cheryl and I) and had a very interesting conversation. Conversation between us tends to veer towards problems and solutions (at their essence potential business ideas), this one was about creating a town based on current web-based app/small business thinking, in the process revitalizing the concept [...]

To the 3 people that regularly read this…sorry, but it’s another post about my experiences launching and learning with Manpacks!
It’s been a whirlwind 2-3 weeks since launching manpacks.com, it managed to exceed my expections for a ‘launch’ and it’s also managed to reinforce a number of things that I’ve always believed and have long stated [...]

One of the most common “comments” about manpacks I’ve seen is that it seems like it’s awfully lazy. Which makes me wonder about these people as they clearly haven’t thought this statement through.
What about that remote control in your hands while you’re watching tv? You can’t walk 5ft to the tv to switch channels?
How about [...]

After an incredibly exciting weekend of watching manpacks.com go viral to a degree I thought I’d outline how we got to this point, and talk about our experience with one service in particular – chargify.com.
First, a bit of back story… Manpacks started out as a casual conversation via  IM, talking over some problems/solutions that might [...]

I know what you’re thinking – You’ve heard a ton of stuff about SaaS (Software as a Service), but WTF is PaaS? Well…in short it’s Products as a Service (we toyed with referring to it as pPaaS too, physical Products as a Service but it didn’t feel as straight-forward as PaaS). In short it’s selling [...]