Seeing that Tipping Point of Joy Get Closer and Closer
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…
Three reasons why Katniss Everdeen would dazzle as a CEO
This post was originally published in Inc.com I recently saw the second Hunger Games movie and, at the risk of sounding ridiculously melodramatic, it brought to mind my…
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…
The startup bias: How American consumer product innovation and exports are being hindered
I’ve never reposted anything in its entirety but this article was so brilliant, I felt compelled. Well done Sindhya Valloppillil! (I’m trying out the Repost tool,…
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…
Visiting Boston? Go see Street Seats!
I’ve lived on and off in Boston for 29 years. I never saw more force of support for the place (ie. feet on the street) than…
We are “The Grommet” now.
This is a teaser of big things to come this Saturday–a whole new Grommet site is coming! In anticipation we changed our company name from Daily…
Watching an idea get born, startup-style…
I’ve been doing a lot of speaking with young founders at places like the Harvard i-Lab, Startup Institute, TechStars and Mass Challenge. People always want to…
Startup Biz Dev: A tricky game of long and short ball
I had an interaction with a first-time founder that reminded me how hard it is to learn the art of doing business development in startups. As…
A killer tool for revealing company culture : Stop, Start, Keep
My most memorable course at HBS was taught by a young instructor (now professor) named Tom DeLong. It was called Career Management. I liked it for…
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