by David Apgar | Mar 14, 2018 | Business intelligence, Entrepreneurs, Small business, Technology strategy
PayStand is not the only fintech startup in the Monterey Bay area. But B2B platforms like PayStand are a rarity – collectors’ items for any local economy. PayStand’s recent successful funding round and the attention it’s getting in Silicon Valley (see CEO Jeremy...
by David Apgar | Sep 1, 2017 | GoalScreen, Performance management, Small business, Working smarter
What do you do when big gaps between actual and projected sales or cash flow stare out at you from the books (or your computer screen) week after week? If you’re like most people, your first reaction is to work harder. After all, volatile results make backers nervous...
by David Apgar | Aug 11, 2017 | Business Advisors, Business intelligence, Entrepreneurs, Performance management, Small business, Technology strategy
A recent blog on an automated business-scorecard site helpfully suggests 18 key performance indicators that you should track. Along with 13 bonus performance indicators. And a link to another 37 indicators. The list faithfully follows the structure of the balanced...
by David Apgar | Aug 4, 2017 | Entrepreneurs, Small business, Technology strategy, Working smarter
People.ai CEO Oleg Rogynskyy busts the urban myth that Y Combinator has become Silicon Valley’s Ivy League – an incubator with a surface veneer of hard work glossing over an engine of great networking. Here’s what he writes. “Y Combinator is about understanding the...
by David Apgar | Jul 21, 2017 | Assumption Testing, Business intelligence, Entrepreneurs, Small business, Technology strategy, Uncategorized
Malcolm Forbes supposedly said that on Wall Street, whoever has the most toys wins. His magazine argued more recently that in Silicon Valley, whoever has the most data wins. Andrew Ng of Stanford and Coursera agrees, as do most Big Data entrepreneurs and evangelists....
