by David Apgar | May 13, 2020 | Sustainable tech, Technology strategy, Transparency, Universal investors
The mutual fund revolution is overturning a fundamental principle of finance that it’s in the interest of investors for CEOs to maximize profit over time. This principle depends on an increasingly fragile assumption – that most investors in a firm hold shares in...
by David Apgar | Jan 16, 2019 | Calm management, Calm teams, Entrepreneurs, Small business
Calm teams cope with wicked problems. There’s some evidence for this below but the real question is how. Calm teams seem to adapt to unstable goals, innovate around inadequate solutions, and be mindful of surprising results. These are general signs of team...
by David Apgar | Jun 16, 2018 | Business intelligence, Machine learning, Performance management
Special to Santa Cruz Works “Looker?” asked the sales consultant over the roar of 5,000 entrepreneurs and engineers frantically canvassing the vendor hall at The Indus Entrepreneurs 2018 Inflect conference in Santa Clara. Pivoting in front of his company’s neural-net...
by David Apgar | Jun 1, 2018 | Government procurement, Sustainable tech, Technology strategy, Transparency
Special to Santa Cruz Tech Beat, 5 June 2018 As a modern, bank-independent, digital B2B payment processor, PayStand is part of a wave of democratizing financial technologies with the potential to lift all businesses – and not just the biggest. And yet the technologies...
by David Apgar | Mar 14, 2018 | Entrepreneurs, Small business, Sustainable tech, Technology strategy
Special to Santa Cruz Tech Beat March 13, 2018 — Santa Cruz, CA (Image above: Contributed by author, from July 2015 Inmotion newsletter of Dallas Area Rapid Transit) Santa Cruz has plenty of cool alternative transport startups. It’s true they can seem peripheral at a...
