Ancient Egyptians worked out the relationship between a circle’s diameter and its circumference nearly 4,000 years ago. I had a laptop, a supplier catalog, and the entire fourth quarter to get it right, and still managed to order a few hundred velvet bags that couldn’t hold the product they were built for. The rush Late…
I hope, five years from now, I’m not rereading this divorced and feeling like a moron for having written it. But we’re 12 years into the marriage and things have been going pretty well, so I’ll take the shot anyway. A lot of thinking went into what happens when your wife also becomes your work…
I wish I had a better story for this one. Something with a little poker in it, pot odds and hand equity, maybe a nod to ICM and expected value under tournament pressure. That’s the version of me that sounds like he knows what he’s doing. The real version just slogged through figuring out how…
We spent months getting Celeste Naturals’ products right. Ingredient research, formulation testing, brainstorming how different ingredients lined up with both performance and our actual brand values. Sizes, shapes, colors, scents, skin benefits. We treated the soap like it mattered, because it did. Then we got to the box, and decided that could just be our best…
I like to toot my own horn. I think I’m pretty damn smart, and I’ve got the receipts to back it up: top grades, a stint living abroad, an executive MBA from Georgia Tech, over a decade as a trusted advisor to serious organizations in consulting, then another decade practicing those same skills in industry….
Let’s be clear about something first: cash matters. It pays for ingredients, displays, tents, marketing, gas, and whatever you’re eating while you sit at a table for six hours praying someone buys a bar of soap. Run out of it, or fail to move product fast enough, and that’s a quick way to end a…