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...
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 | 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...
