Teaching kids to do “weird”
As a mother, I have only one annual over the top activity. It’s in the form of an exuberant advent calendar. Shameless bribery? Perhaps. Guilt-reducing? Check. …
All I want for Christmas is a 3-D Printer
Kickstarter is a red-hot online community that broadens access to almost any kind of project funding. You think of an idea, post it, and make a…
I’m thankful for our investors (and an above-and-beyond story)
Startup CEO’s can spend a lot of time privately sharing investor horror stories. But we also trade the good guy tales too. In that vein, I…
These 99% are doing something about it
The New York Times reports today that “A Town in New York Creates Its Own Department Store.” In Saranac Lake, a picturesque Adirondacks town, the 5,000…
Girls, Girls, Girls!
As a girl, I formed many notions about entrepreneurship by devouring every biography in my elementary school. I loved the stories about how a single person…
Retail discounts…often just a modern day shell game
I was in Bed Bath & Beyond recently and the prices seemed high. I paused and thought about their generous return policy, the expense of the…
Jules Pieri 