Warning: bragging mom occupying this space
Skip this post if you can’t stand fawning parents. I am seriously in awe of my youngest son this month. This short video gives a really…
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A first trip to Tokyo: kind of like my first hot yoga class
I’m on the plane back from Tokyo and thinking hard about how to explain my experience to the Grommet team. We have a tradition of sharing our travels at our weekly team…
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If I only read one thing, it is always Xconomy
Sometimes it’s hard to be building a business that is doing something completely new. You can look really crazy or naive to a casual observer. I imagine the founders of…
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We are “The Grommet” now.
This is a teaser of big things to come this Saturday–a whole new Grommet site is coming! In anticipation we changed our company name from Daily Grommet to The Grommet. …
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A huge sea change in consumer products: six points of evidence
Although I trained as a designer, my work is always based on cultural anthropology. Any disruptive business model innovation has to be based on enduring, seismic changes in how…
Visiting Boston? Go see Street Seats!
I’ve lived on and off in Boston for 29 years. I never saw more force of support for the place (ie. feet on the street) than…
Watching an idea get born, startup-style…
Five big things a startup CEO must “own” when closing a financing
Sneaking around in the basement, and where it landed me
Sleeping with a stranger: via AirBnB
Favorite Infographic Evah
I am crazy about this infographic for three reasons: It comes from the kind of company we support at Grommet. The DodoCase was the first runaway…
Watching an idea get born, startup-style…
I’ve been doing a lot of speaking with young founders at places like the Harvard i-Lab, Startup Institute, TechStars and Mass Challenge. People always want to…
Startup Biz Dev: A tricky game of long and short ball
I had an interaction with a first-time founder that reminded me how hard it is to learn the art of doing business development in startups. As…
Living large: live pitch competition at Fenway
Daily Grommet and Google Apps are collaborating on a live product pitch event at Fenway on March 19. The thing is so cool from start to…
Visit a VC: and party like it’s 1969
I spent Friday in a classroom at Harvard Business School, speaking at three sections of a “Founders’ Dilemmas” class. I was on a panel that included…
