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 | 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 | 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 | 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....
by David Apgar | Jul 17, 2017 | Assumption Testing, Business intelligence, Entrepreneurs, Small business, Technology strategy
Parochial data – the failure to share data or its analysis – can be lethal. In 2008, I published a case study of the 2005 explosion at BP’s Texas City refinery that killed 15 and injured 100 people in my book Relevance (Wiley). One key point was that the firm had...
