Can this baby have role models by year 2027?
I have two ambitions for The Grommet. The first is to level the playing field so the best companies and products can win. The second is…
Could you start a company? The three A’s of entrepreneurship
The number one question Harvard Business School students ask me when I meet them (in my job as an Entrepreneur in Residence) boils down to “Am…
Real Deal Road Trip #13: Japan’s Hida region
Disclaimer: If you’ve travelled extensively in Japan, skip this post. I’m a novice, sharing some light observations from my second trip to the country. But if…
Launching boys and a company
It’s early Saturday morning and I’m in a deeply reflective mood. In a few hours I get on a plane to Chicago with my youngest son…
A spot of help please?
I don’t like to ask my networks very often for social media pushes, but I am bending that rule today as we’ve applied to the SXSW…
President Obama: We need Title Nine for funding women’s startups
I’ve just spent a week with an accomplished athlete. She is my mom’s sister, Sally Chaney. Her sport was fast-pitch softball. Aunt Sally anchored left field…
Suggest a mega-company female founder name, please!
Sitting half-alert in eighth-grade civics class, I once had a moment that rocked me to the core. The teacher was sharing stats regarding the representation of…
Boys of summer: trying to get on Sports Center Top 10
Since I am communing with the loons on a Maine lake, I thought I’d put up this pretty amazing video of an event that happened here…
Hat Trick of Happy Comments
I keep a file of “Messages that made me happy.” It got three new additions last week, that I am sharing below. From Facebook: Via email…
Made in the U.S.: Is America Making a Manufacturing Comeback?
This was originally printed in the Huffington Post on 7-15-13 As a trained industrial designer, part of my former job was to anticipate consumer needs —…
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