Incumbents
Almost every startup has big companies (“incumbents”) that are at some point potential acquirers or competitors. For internet startups that…
Email Resolutions for 2010 – Part II
Here are the other six resolutions for an email marketer in 2010. Here are the first six from yesterday. 7.…
How can Enterprise Performance Management be Summarized?
I spend a lot of time investigating and writing about just exactly what enterprise performance management is and how to…
What does Google know about you?
As I promote The Numerati, people often ask me how much Google knows about each of its users. So a…
Which is more important? Rearview mirrors or windshield?
A popular pair of PowerPoint slides used by business conference speakers first displays a distant car behind in the rearview…
Why Dunbar’s Number is Irrelevant
For those of you not familiar with Dunbar’s number it basically says that the most amount of people that you…
Monitoring a System
I've been using Python with IbPy, rather than Matlab. The code I post will most likely be in Python going…
A CTO Analysis of Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s Speech on Internet Freedom
On 21 January 2010 Secretary of State Clinton delivered a speech on the topic of Internet Freedom. This is a…
Counting Observations
Data is fodder for the data mining process. One fundamental aspect of the data we analyze is its size, which…
How to disrupt Wall Street
Sarah Lacy has a very interesting post on TechCrunch where she conjectures that the internet is finally starting to disrupt…