Maybe I am a loser, but I still feel lucky
So it’s after 5:00 PM on New Year’s Eve and I am still in the office. I am reflecting on the closing year…one in which we…
I lived through three TV shows, kinda
Daily Grommet was selected for the Springboard Enterprises ALLTHINGSMEDIA Venture Capital Forum a few months back. Diane Hessan, CEO of Communispace, had encouraged me to apply. …
Finishing each other’s sentences; crucial in a startup
Our advisor Chris Herot started exploring a new “Startup Predictor” tool, at the site You Noodle, on our behalf. He punted when the Predictor questionnaire went…
Dodged that bullet
BusinessWeek covered the VC Forum Boot Camp that Daily Grommet was selected for. I am glad that they did not publish my rather lame video pitch. …
Something I never heard from a CEO before, and other miscellany from SEED
37 Signals hosted the third annual SEED Conference last Friday in Chicago: it lived up to its commitment of being all about design, entrepreneurship and inspiration.…
My friends are turning into Amandas
I was thrilled to see one of my all-time-favorite college interns, Amanda Mooney, quoted in the current Business Week cover story: Beyond Blogs; what business needs…
My dog is for sale
I love the custom manufacturing business models of Zazzle, GoodStorm and CafePress. They blend made-to-order JIT manufacturing with UGC, seemingly as effortlessly as ABC. Example: upload…
RightsAgent Launched.
I just registered this blog with RightsAgent. Cool. Great way to start aggregating everything I publish online into one place, and to control the re-publication and…
People still think we design factories?
As a young industrial designer, my colleagues and I were used to explaining what we did–to our friends, siblings, parents, and virtually everyone we met. “Well…
Jules Pieri 