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…
Things I’m Excited About: Crowd Companies Launches Today
Today marks the launch of a new company that I’m delighted to see added to the startup ecosystem and even more excited to join as one…
Happiness Equals Expectations Minus Reality
This post was originally published on Inc.com I get to hang around a lot of students because I’m an Entrepreneur in Residence at Harvard Business School…
Women Can Discriminate Too
This piece was originally published in Inc.com n this era of Lean In-inspired dialogue, we can often assume that only men are guilty of gender bias. Yet…
5 Steps to Take Your Product from Concept to Reality
This piece was originally published by Entrepreneur magazine. I reproduce it in its entirety here. Jules Pieri started The Grommet, a product-launch platform, after realizing that contemporary…
This honorable act will amaze you
At the end of 2012 our company was so over-crowded some people had to ask their nearby colleagues to get up so they could go to…
The upstart site that seduces with endless doses of anger, awe, and anxiety
I keep finding myself frequently clicking through Facebook posts by the new site Upworthy. Apparently I am not alone. In June 2013 Fast Company reported that:…
A generation of Henry (and Henrietta) Fords is being shaped in front of our eyes
Today’s kids are being powerfully shaped into realizing they can be inventors and Makers. I’m seeing examples of this as prevalent as Dunkin’ Donuts shops in…
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…
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