Joining the Antitrust, Pro-Competition Brigade
While helming The Grommet, I had a front row seat on the damage that large tech monopolies can inflict on a small businesses–especially Amazon–but also including…
While helming The Grommet, I had a front row seat on the damage that large tech monopolies can inflict on a small businesses–especially Amazon–but also including…
One of my beloved cousins posted the above on Facebook two days ago. I adore my cousin. She and I agree on most things that matter…
The last month of Grommet life has felt like a year–in a good way–so it’s appropriate that we are marking the milestone of our ninth birthday…
In 1985, in a large Harvard Business School amphitheater classroom, about 75 of us were discussing the shrinking of US manufacturing and the explosive growth of the service…
Grommet’s daily launches currently reach 1 in 25 US households. With that great influence comes serious responsibility. Some call us a “trust agent” for the Maker Movement—making…
French cookware company Le Creuset recently honored its lifetime guarantee when it replaced my beloved–but chipped–Dutch oven. It’s a piece of cookware I use weekly, and sometimes daily. I…
In my normal weekend food shop I alternate between feisty local favorite Market Basket and Whole Foods. This week it was Whole Foods. In the space of…
Joanne and I sent a special email out to 17,000 of our top customers to mark the Thanksgiving holiday. I am loving the responses people are sending…
When you start a business you are constantly looking for evidence that you are not crazy, and that you are working on something that matters. In…
Today’s kids are being powerfully shaped into realizing they can be inventors and Makers. I’m seeing examples of this as prevalent as Dunkin’ Donuts shops in…