Igor Altman
Senior Director Project Management
Startup Strategy
Beware of Best Practices
If you are the CEO of a start-up software company, be very wary of best practices. If you are the...
by Igor Altman
Startup Strategy
Are you really a technology company?
Many expansion stage software companies consider themselves technology companies. That is, they are most proud of their technology and that's...
by Igor Altman
Finance & Operations
Security and Compliance Holding Back Public Cloud Market
When IT professionals and expansion stage technology executives discuss cloud computing, a mix excitement and dread emerges for the IT...
by Igor Altman
Startup Strategy
Stop Wasting on Sales and Marketing
The following pattern strikes me as bizarre, almost crazy, and yet I see it present at many expansion stage software...
by Igor Altman
Startup Strategy
Three ways to ruin your business
If you are a CEO or a manager and you want to ruin your business, do the following: Recruit just...
by Igor Altman
Startup Strategy
What cloud means for VARs
Last week, Hunter Richards at Software Advice blogged about how VARs should navigate the cloud computing market and related virtualization trends....
by Igor Altman
Startup Strategy
Innovative Market Research
I recently attended OpenView Senior Adviser Luke Hohmann's Innovation Games ® class, where I was exposed to a whole new form of...
by Igor Altman
Finance & Operations
Venture Capital in the Cloud
This week I heard two announcements concerning venture capital investment into expansion stage software vendors in the cloud computing space. One...
by Igor Altman
Finance & Operations
Public cloud or private cloud?
Enterprise IT executives are struggling to answer the question: Do we go with a private cloud solution or a public...
by Igor Altman