(Note: While I am still the President and CEO of AvalonBridge and remain committed to helping companies grow through strategic consulting and targeted investing, in March of 2016 I decided to go in-house with ATA and take over as CEO to help pursue and shape opportunities in the filed of data science for reasons, at least in part, that may become evident in this blog post.) Some would tell you that data science and full stack developer talent are the two toughest types of peo

In my post about the new definition of value describing the significance of the intangibles, defined as an investors' confidence in the differential capacity of leadership teams to learn, adapt and innovate ahead of the competition in order to optimize customer relevance, experience and advocacy, quality, value differentiation, surprise and delight, when it comes to a conversation about winning the war for top talent we must take an expansive view of the word investor. Classi