Cedric Chin

Why does data analytics and business intelligence lag behind the best practices and tooling of software? Two anecdotes and a theory.

Building a career in data often means building a career in a business cost center. This isn't necessarily bad. Here's how to think about it.

What we can learn from Softwar, a book about Larry Ellison's attempt to take over the enterprise software world.

What intermix.io's forced acquisition tells us about the two philosophies of cost in data analytics.

A look into metadata hubs, which might just be the hottest category of data tools of the past two years.

We take a look at the business fundamentals of the operations stage — the last of three stages in a company's life.

Are dashboards really 'dead'? A response to a vendor trend that seems rather premature.

The scale stage is the second of three stages in a startup's life. In this post, we discuss what product-market fit means, and then we look at healthy growth (the kind that leads to winning) and unhealthy growth (the kind that leads to company death).

When your company grows, the metrics that matter changes along with it. Here's a look at the three growth stages of every company, along with the metrics that matter most at each stage.