Instant Incubator

Are you entrepreneurially-minded and interested in some really hot, original business concepts? If so, you’re going to love the Instant Incubator. Let me give you a little background…

I’m an Idea Man. Always have been. I recognized this at an early age and at the age of 20 I had a plan to start one business—a restaurant delivery service—and then leverage success in that business to start another one, and then another one, and so on until I ran a far flung empire of businesses. Unfortunately, my plans didn’t quite work out. I spent all of my 20′s trying to just get my first business off the ground, only to have it end in failure.

I started three more businesses in my 30′s, but still never had a hit. As I approached 40 I was ready to start a family, so I finally hung up my entrepreneurial spurs and started a career in the Internet industry.

And all the while those ideas just kept coming. I couldn’t stop them if I tried. Great ideas! Some big, some small. Always novel.

Today I’m an employee at a great company called Baynote, Inc. and I have two daughters to support. I don’t have the resources or the bandwidth to turn any of these ideas into businesses, let alone all of them.

But I love these ideas! And I just want to see them become real. So I’ve decided on another novel approach—I’m releasing these business ideas to the world and seeking people to champion them. I can’t drive these businesses, but I can provide the inspiration as well as technical and marketing support to the person who does. So what if I only get a small share of each company? I realize now it never was about the money anyway.

So if you are an entrepreneur with time and resources and you’re just looking for an original business concept, check out the ideas below. Then Contact Me.

eNormal - This will be a social application that combines Dear Abby-like advice, voyeurism, self-analysis, and incentivization into a really engaging little game.
MentorNet – Since 1995 I’ve been doing web development and online marketing under this name, but I’ve got much bigger plans for this business.
ScreenPlayMate – Unfinished system, long since gone to seed. But the ideas is to be a screenplay collaboration tool.
SuperSurveySystem – This is a tool that helps people earn money taking online surveys while avoiding all the scams that clutter that part of the web.
This is a tool that automates the process of setting up pay per click advertising campaigns in Google, Bing, Ask and others. Under development.
Consolidated eCommerce is a multi-merchant ecommerce system that allows low-volume ecommerce stores to accept credit cards without having to set up their own merchant account at a cost of $75 or so per month.
This is my attempt to recruit partners to launch a super-ambitious web project.
  • Online Business Platform – An organized collection of all the tools and resources needed to run an online business.
  • Personal Paparazzi – Paparazzi when you want them. Crowdsourced network of film people. Mobile Location detection. Franchise business.
  • Corporate Clone – Form a corporation named after you. It is another human according to law. So it is like you, but it isn’t you. It is somebody else. Your Corporate Clone.
  • Consolidated Ecommerce – Also under development. A multi-merchant ecommerce system.
  • Alphire eMarketing – Currently set up as an email marketing application. But this should be more than that.
  • Highway 1 Guide – An interactive map focused on the entire length of Highway 1.
  • WaveCenter – Open source-developed collaboration platform based on a Joomla platform.   Game layer based on development on the platform as well as all the apps and content developed on top of it
  • WaveLab – WaveLab is a companion project to WaveCenter. Pretty dormant.
  • StoreFrontMoney.com – This is our easy digital webstore builder complete with customized and fully-loaded deluxe blog and marketing support.
  • Website Publisher Pro – Cloned Joomla sites
  • Social Scoop – Automated tool for finding and organizing social profiles
  • KewLinx – Variation on Digg. Social ranking with visual representation.
  • Joomla extReview – Complete reviews of all Joomla extensions
  • Shill Locator – A hypothetical algorithm to identify paid shills that lurk in the social fabric.
  • 2012 Social Network – A social network for people concerned about 2012 predictions – focused on local connections.
  • Secret Paradise – Sharing secret locations via GPS.
  • Social Circle – A simple WordPress plugin or embeddable object to facilitate social interaction on your website.
  • Project Bootstrap – A network of blog sites built around WordPress.
  • Blogadu – A network of blog sites built around WordPress.
  • Edaptus – This was a business I started with Tim Wasson and Paul Sumares several years ago. Cool concept, but this one is here mostly because of the cool logo I designed. ;-)
  • HexBall – A trampoline game I invented
  • Skypark – The greatest theme park ever!
  • Quest -
  • Wearable Computers -

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