I recently had the opportunity to sit down with founder of and Senior Analyst at the Enterprise Strategy Group, Steve Duplessie, and discuss my history with the data optimization space as well as the transition of Storwize to IBM Real-time

How to get to an inflection point needs to be a part of everyone’s plan. And most strategies should include what you are going to do with the ecosystem. This involves knowing where you are in market development, understanding the

I have to start with: Companies are Bought, Not Sold. And it’s a consolidating industry, so there are only a little over a handful of companies that can buy for hundreds and millions of dollars. If you are a VC

You can’t talk about this process without talking about capital efficiency. I can’t stress it enough; you really have to be careful about the cash. It really affects you and your own personal life in the outcome. You need capital,

The first 90 days of you as the new CEO of a company is everything. This is a longer video, but I believe people don’t focus enough on the transitions. This is you. This is your life. The key points

In emerging companies product is the first priority. That’s intuitive enough, right? Without product or technology in a startup, you really don’t have much. But your team is a close a second on that priority list. You need good people around

Finding the right opportunity, the illusive “good one.” It’s out there, don’t worry. But how do you go about doing this with only 20% of the data? You need a framework. In this video I go over what I use

I came up with a presentation three years ago that I thought captured what I do, as far as running a startup, what made me successful and insights into my process, are concerned. I had the opportunity to present it