I’m thankful for our investors (and an above-and-beyond story)
Startup CEO’s can spend a lot of time privately sharing investor horror stories. But we also trade the good guy tales too. In that vein, I…
Operating under siege
As we straggled into the office yesterday morning, after weathering Hurricane Irene, I thought, “It’s getting rather Biblical around here.” I’m sharing a photo essay of…
Subverting Apple
One of our Daily Grommet investors told me today that every time he goes in an Apple store he walks around to every computer on display…
A mind is a terrible thing to waste
I bought a pair of jeans yesterday. Just a basic Gap replacement pair for some worn-out favorites. I got home with the new dungarees only to…
What makes a consumer internet startup ready for venture capital?
Consumer businesses and venture capitalists are uneasy bedfellows. There are times when the match makes sense, but often the fit just isn’t there. Here are the…
Anticipating egg on my face, and apologizing in advance
Two weeks ago we had fully vetted a potential cooking tool Grommet and had it scheduled to run imminently. We used the product multiple times. We…
Spiking the football, if I could
You know those guys who spike the football in the end zone and violently fist pump the air? Making no secret of their elation? And…
Claire goes 0 to 60 on video
I was so delighted to see this final (for now) video from our recently departed intern Claire Lorman. She’s headed back to Savannah College of Art…
Hat Trick: Three articles that were powerful enough to distract me from jumping in the lake on a hot holiday weekend
I did an enormous amount of lake-side book and magazine reading over the holiday weekend. Below are the three articles that stood the “24-hours-later-and-I-still-remember-them” test of…
Brain Food “Takeout” Delivery by Raj Sisodia: Conscious Capitalism
We have a weekly team meeting that we “blew up” today. Here’s why: Lara Simon told me that at her first startup, Yoyodyne, founder Seth Godin…
Jules Pieri 