Posts from the ‘Start-ups’ category

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…

I can’t find the reality line

I went to the super-well-done Cyberposium at Harvard Business School Saturday. A highlight was having the founder of Second Life, Philip Rosedale, explain his virtual world…

Startup founders who “get” design

In my last post I whined about business people not understanding what industrial designers do. The corollary is that design is undervalued as a strategic tool.…

Jules Pieri

As an investor, founder, CEO and business book author, I write about startups, design, how to build a good business, and I like to muse about culture in any form.