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…
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…
Surprising result from study: What NYT articles are “most emailed?”
A recent study , written by by John Tierney, of the most emailed New York Times articles yielded some unexpected results. Here’s how it was conducted:…
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…
A 3-D printer for $750!
Until fairly recently, you had to be a “me” to develop a manufactured product. I mean a professionally trained designer or engineer with access to big…
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…
Nothin’ better than being trusted
Anyone who’s lived outside of the US will nod their head when I make the big bold claim: Americans must be the most trusting people on…
We’re not so much the rare exotic bird, as the 800 lb gorilla.
Sometimes a consumer-oriented business like Daily Grommet can be perceived like some little rare bird in certain business circles. Thus I loved a graph I saw…
Real Deal Road Trip No. 7: The Luggage Center
The Luggage Center, Burlingame, CA There’s nothing like going to a specialty shop that has a rich assortment of quality products, that takes risks on new…
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