Alistair has been an entrepreneur, author, and public speaker for nearly 20 years. He’s worked on a variety of topics, from web performance, to big data, to cloud computing, to startups, in that time. In 2001, he co-founded web performance startup Coradiant (acquired by BMC in 2011), and since that time has also launched Rednod, CloudOps, Bitcurrent, Year One Labs, the Bitnorth conference, the International Startup Festival and several other early-stage companies.
Alistair is the chair of O’Reilly’s Strata conference, Techweb's Cloud Connect, and the International Startup Festival. "Lean Analytics" is his fourth book on analytics, technology, and entrepreneurship. He lives in Montreal, Canada and tries to mitigate chronic ADD by writing about far too many things at "Solve For Interesting".
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Recent Posts | All O'Reilly Posts
- Six lifestyle hacks for this year, April 04 2013
- Design matters more than math, February 08 2013
- Strata Conference in Santa Clara 2013 Startup Showcase, February 08 2013
- The business singularity, January 31 2013
- Stacks get hacked: The inevitable rise of data warfare, January 19 2013
- Stacks get hacked: The inevitable rise of data warfare, January 18 2013
- Thin walls and traffic cameras, October 19 2012
- Startup Showcase: And the finalists are …, October 17 2012
- New ethics for a new world, October 15 2012
- New ethics for a new world, October 15 2012
- Follow up on big data and civil rights, August 29 2012
- Three kinds of big data, August 21 2012
- Big data is our generation’s civil rights issue, and we don’t know it, August 01 2012
- Survey results: How businesses are adopting and dealing with data, January 23 2012
- The feedback economy, January 04 2012
- Cooking the data, September 20 2011
- The Meat to Math ratio, August 18 2011
- There's no such thing as big data, August 09 2011
- Everyone loves a science fair, January 04 2011
- Tablets, education, and unions, October 20 2010
- Big business for big data, September 21 2010
- Why Twitter's t.co is a game changer, September 13 2010
- On the performance of clouds, June 21 2010
- Promiscuous online culture and the vetting process, April 29 2010
- Web operators are brain surgeons, April 14 2010
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The Best of Strata Santa Clara 2013: The Business Singularity
July 02, 2013
Join us for an exclusive presentation by Alistair Croll recorded live from Strata Santa Clara 2013. For centuries, business has been about scale. Business students are taught that cconomies of scale are the only long-term sustainable advantage, ...
Webcast: Lean Analytics 201: Five Lessons Beyond the Basics
August 06, 2013
By now, you're probably heard of Lean Analytics. Maybe you've even learned about the five stages all startups go through, or how to pick the one metric that matters for your business model and how to draw a line in the sand. In this webcast, authors...
Strata Online Conference: Mobility, Data, and Analytics
June 05, 2013
Every hand, every pocket, and every bedside table is now an interface for both the collection and the delivery of data. Today's mobile platform pushes the limits of data collection systems. Harvesting information from billions...
Strata Online Conference: Strata Santa Clara 2013 Preview
February 15, 2013
At the end of February, Strata returns to Santa Clara for the third year. In addition to our focus on the burgeoning field of Big Data, this year Strata is diving deep into the role of design and our inexorable march ...
Webcast: Five Things You Need To Know About Startup Analytics
March 06, 2013
In this live webcast presentation we walk you through Lean Analytics—what it is, how it works and some important concepts that can help you as an innovator in a startup or large company. In this webcast we will discuss: Lean From Within: ...
Webcast: Strata + Hadoop World: Join the Data Revolution
October 03, 2012
On October 23, the Strata Conference returns to the Big Apple. Twinned with Hadoop World, it's the leading event on how pervasive data is changing the world in which we live. In this free online conference, we preview some of the...
Webcast: O'Reilly Strata Online Conference
December 07, 2011
Recorded Sessions: Part 1: Top-down: What CEOs Can Do to Accelerate Data Mindsets Part 2 - Web Analytics: The Enterprise Gateway Drug to Big Data? Part 3: Take a Lesson from the Research World Part 4 - Is it Still Big Data if it Fits ...
Webcast: O'Reilly Strata Online Conference
May 16, 2012
It was the best of times: open, unfettered access to data from around the world in an instant, and the tools to analyze it and put it in the hands of the many. Today's always-on society has access to the sum of all human thoughts in a click or a ...
Webcast: Data in Motion
July 24, 2012
With every step, every commute, every leap, we make data. From the diagnostics on a jet engine to the muscles of a top athlete, from the train we take to work to the way we track sports scores, data is in motion. In this Strata Online ...
Strata Online Conference: Data Warfare
January 22, 2013
From public policy to elections, from healthcare to the battlefield, our lives rely on the analysis of abundant, connected data. But if data is infrastructure, then that infrastructure's vulnerable. Enemies can confound...
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