My mom's answer after I called her about the $4m - "Now that your company is healthy, you need to be healthy! Eat better!". That is in essence how they reacted both times.

More than I would like to admit!

Even though he could easily be given a trophy for biggest jerk ever, I'd say he kind of won today. Bi-winning, people.

I have a lot more work and get a lot more email these days -- also, there are a LOT more people trying to gain and then abuse my friendship as a self-promotional device than when I worked at RWW.

It was Janette's idea actually. I knew I wanted "Store" in the title because I wanted people to instantly have an idea what the website did. Here is an except from a blog post I wrote back in 2008 during our naming phase. At the time, Storenvy was aimed at a smaller niche. The names were all terrible.

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I''m trying to name a social online merch application geared toward bands and clothing companies. The project has been nameless for going on 3 months now. Here is a list of some reject names. They were rejected because either (a.) the urls are taken or (b.) the name is too dumb to ever speak aloud ever again. Enjoy.

iMerch
Merchasaurus
Merchasaurus Rex
Merch Robot
Shopasaurus
Shopasaurus Rex
Storganic
Storganism
Bandana
Magna Carta
Merchenary
Merchinary
Merch Monster
Storable
StoreBus (like "tour bus")
Store Engine
Storegasm (had to try)
Storrr (Like a pirate?)
SolidState
SolidStores

Thanks for the sweet proposal. A few things 1) I'm taken, 2) (That's a polite no). 3) Like the combo package of marriage proposal with your name hidden. 4) You look like Christian Bale right?