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…
Grommet launched on October 20, 2008. If you want to see some of the embarrassing details of our history, check out this lighthearted post. I’m in…
Given that this company started with big ambitions, it’s so gratifying to seeing them played out in the numbers. A Tufts University freshman interviewed me today…
Hiring is the most important activity of any startup. Yet a lot of the conventional wisdom does not sit right with me. There’s always such an…
In the earliest days of Grommet I wrote a blog post “When is this startup real?” The business was mostly taking shape in my head and I was…
I like to think that our Grommet team makes video narration look easy. It is not. Especially because none of us are trained video “talent.” Thank God…
Grommet is growing rapidly, both revenue and people-wise. So I recently asked the team to tell me what they thought we had to protect–as we navigate from…
One of the ties that binds The Grommet team is making fun of me and Joanne in our early videos. Their universal favorite is the launch…
In my work as an Entrepreneur in Residence at Harvard, I meet with eight separate student groups twice a month. Most of the sessions focus on the students’ early…
Yesterday I found the box of accessories that came with a long-forgotten sewing machine. The aqua Singer was an antique when I bought it so the accessories are…