Daily Grommet Move (Sort of) Part One
I wrote recently about our pressing need to move the Daily Grommet team to more space. It has gotten ridiculous in our offices, with twelve people…
Our Buddy Beta
Our COO Patti Purcell imported an interesting idea from her days as CEO of BodyShop.com It’s called “Buddies.” The purpose is to assign each new employee…
VC’s should eat their young (before they are born)
My youngest son recently told me that lions and rats sometimes eat their young if their eco-system is strained for food and other resources. In so…
Once more, with feeling…Pitching to investors
I will never be the author of a piece on “How to Successfully Raise Start-up Capital.” That’s because the dirty reality is that the fund-raising process…
We need to move…yesterday.
We have been bursting at the seams for months but I tripped on a new level of ridiculousness this morning. Here is how Sara is working…
The best Boston investor you probably never heard of
Daily Grommet just completed a Series A funding round. Happy days. We attracted a best and brightest group of investors who have themselves founded, built, and…
Betting on American hackers
I’m pretty excited to learn about the startup TechShop. It’s taking high-end product development prototyping and development tools to the street (or the strip mall). How…
Quick wind-up of SXSW
Now that I’ve been, I realize that dissecting SXSW is a time-honored “aftermath” sport. Makes sense…this is THE social media crowd. OF course they are going…
My mindless labor for SXSW
I’m not getting a lot of sympathy when I complain about getting ready for SXSW. C’mon people…it’s no easy task figuring out which of a zillion…
Business card insanity, or what?
Everyone on the Daily Grommet team lives on an austerity budget. It’s just been the reality of doing a startup at the exact same time the…
Jules Pieri 