This is a selection the various ventures and companies I’ve started or developed in my entrepreneurial journey so far. It’s not an exhaustive list by any means. There’s some that never made it past the planning or initial development phases, others are shelves, and even more are still in my head.
If you’re interested in my journal, take a look at this blog post.
Venture is running full steam ahead!
Venture is in development.
Venture has been closed or on hiatus.
Keobi
From the beginning, I was a web developer — Perl, PHP, and now Python. It was always a goal of mine to start a web host modeled after DreamHost — my absolute favorite web hosting provider.
Keobi is a no-frills web hosting company I started (using a name you’ll recognize from my entrepreneurial journey) back in 2019 for the sole purpose of being a private web host for consulting clients and my own sites including this one. I’m very proud of what I’ve built and learned.
Moving into 2025 and beyond, we’re working on making Keobi a public hosting company doing so much more than we are now. Stay tuned!
Kyia Commerce
In 2020, I started out by buying liquidated goods from retailers like Amazon, Target, and Walmart then reselling those at a discount through channels like eBay and Facebook Marketplace. This was just a side hustle for extra cash and YouTube content.
In 2024, I expanded this venture into Kyia Commerce — named after my late pooch. Selling on eBay was just becoming too much of a hassle for not enough reward. I’m currently working on building a portfolio of brands and e-commerce sites.
Capstone Couriers
Spawn from a very bad experience with an IKEA delivery in early 2020, Capstone Couriers was started as a home delivery and logistics company that managed, picked up, and delivered IKEA products to the customer’s door.
Originally, it was expected that customers would be within 50-100 miles so we would do the delivery ourselves, but, as it turned out, the market had a very particular complaint about IKEA shipping that we could fulfill.
The company averaged over $10,000/month in sales and nearly 1,000 orders in the year it was open. In most cases, we outranked IKEA on Google searches for their own products.
Despite the success, it was overwhelming, exhilarating, and unexpected. I closed the company at the end of the year in preparation for new and more intense job that I felt needed my undivided attention.
In the years following, IKEA did change how it did shipping. I’ve since ordered small items from them for delivery and had a very pleasant experience. I like to think folks at IKEA took notice of Capstone Couriers and made those changes partially due to our success.
WatchdogID
WatchdogID was an identity protection subscription service for the rest of us that featured dark web searches for identity information, credit report monitoring, breach indexing and reporting, and more. I started developing it in 2016.
One of my favorite aspects of the project was building an extensive dark web crawler and indexer — think of it as a Google for the dark web. It was built to be used exclusively by WatchdogID to automatically flag and identity member information.
This venture was wound down in 2017 due to lack of funding and the dark web crawler was sold.
Zentek
Zentek was my first big-boy company was started in 2013 as an IT consultancy and remained that until 2018. We provided excellent technology services to keep you and your business zen.
In the beginning, It went through a menagerie of names: Help From Logan, Logan Helps, IT By Logan (to name a few). However, with the help of my creative friend, I rebranded it to Zentek in 2015. At the peak, Zentek had an office in a historic house downtown, several customers, and even a few employees.
Despite the success, I saw that local IT wouldn’t bring the wealth and success. In 2016, I transitioned the IT consultancy to focus on selling essential technologies to businesses — internet, TV, telephone, antivirus, software, and backup. It was doomed from the start. 2016 and 2017 saw the beginning of the eventual collapse of Zentek and my transition into a 9-to-5 life later in 2018.