Jeanne, Jeanne the Dancing Machine
Jeanne Connon is our newly minted Chief Marketing Officer. Happy days! Jeanne came to Grommet the very week we launched and I truly believe we could…
Boston’s tech community is all a-tizzy
Loads of hand-wringing, tears, and digital ink have been spilled over the last week in Boston. Oh no! The venerable venture capital firm Greylock Partners is…
What shasta daisies and full soap dispensers say about a business
With a lot of physical goods (samples of possible Grommets) coming and going in our little offices, it is hard to keep Daily Grommet neat and…
Firing on all cylinders
One of the interesting things in a start-up company is knowing (and measuring) what matters, and recognizing when you get it right (or wrong). Given the…
How does Jason Varitek do his job on the days when he gets no sleep?
Anyone who has survived the early months of a newborn baby at home knows how to push through bone-weary fatigue. You just have to. Same with…
Another brick in the wall
I’ve written before about the milestones that move Daily Grommet forward. We had one today, in that we launched a new book from a very famous…
Nantucket Conference…worth a thought
This is the 10th year for the Nantucket Conference. It’s the New England go-to conference for investors, entrepreneurs, and tech execs. Last year was my first…
A teenager’s summary of start-up company financing
My thirteen-year-old recently asked me, Mom what is the point of raising these “grants” [his word for an investment funding round] for your company? All you…
I need to get home to Detroit (or out of the office) more
This is yesterday’s video. Jen Lockwood and Barbara Hall Gordon are in it. I got this email from my brother Dennis: OK OK first of all…
With friends like Dan….
I feel so lucky to have friends like Dan Weinreb. He’s a rocket scientist (figuratively), who wrote the book on the programming language LISP (literally), and…
Jules Pieri 