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 | 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...
