Business Intelligence Roundtable: Enrich your analytics with Open Data

Tuesdays topic was Business Intelligence Roundtable: Enrich your analytics with Open Data. Slide deck is posted here.

Burn the Ships

Although it’s probably an apocryphal story, legend has it that Cortez instructed his men to “Burn the Ships” upon encountering the New World. This has become (in my parlance, anyway) a catchphrase for being irrevocably committed to a particular course of action. In that spirit, yesterday I blew away v1 of my website and started up this version. […]

The unlikely entrepreneur

Have you ever found yourself doing something and suddenly realized, “Now I am a grown-up”? Like when you closed on your first home, bought something like a sump pump . . . I had the “Now I am an entrepreneur.” moment yesterday when I was ordering a toll-free number for my office line and had […]

Analysis Paralysis at Web (hosting) speed

Today I was doing research for the optimal hosting provider for my new business (ContextQ). I had fairly modest needs, but with anything that requires a commitment of time, or perhaps even more important, that technology works as intended, I am a stickler for research and especially customer reviews or testimonials. Perhaps I even go […]