Five years of freaking out in public: Happy Birthday to The Grommet
Our Marketing team asked me to write a post noting the five-year anniversary of The Grommet’s launch. Hoping to get over my writer’s block, I asked…
Can this baby have role models by year 2027?
I have two ambitions for The Grommet. The first is to level the playing field so the best companies and products can win. The second is…
Could you start a company? The three A’s of entrepreneurship
The number one question Harvard Business School students ask me when I meet them (in my job as an Entrepreneur in Residence) boils down to “Am…
Launching boys and a company
It’s early Saturday morning and I’m in a deeply reflective mood. In a few hours I get on a plane to Chicago with my youngest son…
President Obama: We need Title Nine for funding women’s startups
I’ve just spent a week with an accomplished athlete. She is my mom’s sister, Sally Chaney. Her sport was fast-pitch softball. Aunt Sally anchored left field…
Suggest a mega-company female founder name, please!
Sitting half-alert in eighth-grade civics class, I once had a moment that rocked me to the core. The teacher was sharing stats regarding the representation of…
Hat Trick of Happy Comments
I keep a file of “Messages that made me happy.” It got three new additions last week, that I am sharing below. From Facebook: Via email…
No more “Sh#t on Wheels” *
Hi Grommet friends, We shared a sweet, celebratory moment with our Housewarming party on June 13. We were so gratified by the capacity crowd showing up,…
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…
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…
Jules Pieri 