Gotta get my party vibe going
I’m thrilled Daily Grommet was asked to present at the upcoming South By Southwest Interactive conference. It’s a huge honor and opportunity. SXSW is an enormous…
Executive in Residence, fo’ real.
I wrote a post many months ago about the incredibly rich talent pool created by folks who take a career break and want to get back…
Startups are the Olympics of Business
Last night I watched the Women’s Mogul event in Vancouver Studying each of the steely-eyed competitors, totally focused on the course, I thought about the…
Nancy Koehn, as a great thinker of our times
I read something brilliant recently. It’s a piece by the business historian, and Harvard Business School professor, Nancy Koehn. It’s from the Harvard Business Review, and…
Citizen…commerce?
Sometimes when you are really close to something, like a startup, it is hard to give it a succinct “handle.” You know, something simple like…”BookSwim is…
Live TV makes video seem like a piece of cake.
Today. Monday AM. 8:45 segment on NECN…on “Gifts to Match Any Budget.” I hadn’t done any live TV since I lived in Ireland. It’s a lot…
The top four things I learned in the time elapsed between these two photos.
This is me and Joanne, sometime in 2008, a couple months before our Daily Grommet launch. This is the two of us, last week, a little…
Happy Birthday Daily Grommet! We’re giving ourselves a new site….
What do you know–Daily Grommet turned one! We launched October 20 of 2008–the same time as the stock market crashed. According to conventional wisdom,…
One can only laugh
I love to work with funny people. Patti Purcell, our COO, outdid herself yesterday at the MTLC unConference. Here’s the scene: Venture Capitalist, with British accent,…
What one word would you use to describe your company culture?
I loved this brief, recent article in Xconomy. The author, Gregory T. Huang, asked six CEO’s for one simple word to describe their company culture. And…
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