Alistair Croll Email & Phone Number

CA

Fwd50, Canada's digital government conference, asks how we use technology to make society better for all Canadians. What can we change in 50 days, 50 months, and even 50 years? And what does forward-thinking look like in an era of connected citizens and government as platform?Sign up for notifications, and tell us how you want to get involved, at.

In an attention economy, companies need to spend less time building products and more time getting people to care. After studying hundreds of challenger brands and breakout startups, Emily Ross and I are laying out the principles of modern marketing in the attention economy.Just Evil Enough borrows from psychology, tech, behavioural economics, history, and.

Montreal, Quebec, CA

FounderFuel is a mentor-driven accelerator that helps early stage web, mobile, and SaaS startups raise seed capital through access to veteran entrepreneurs, angel investors, VCs, and senior executives. I mostly work with the teams on applying analytics and data to business growth.

Startupfestival is a three-day event in Montreal, Canada focused on the business of startups. It brings together lean entrepreneurs, industry veterans, top-tier investors and media for an in-depth look at what it takes to launch, grow, and profit from new ventures.While the packed conference includes never-before-seen company launches and invaluable.

I finally got around to consolidating much of the writing and marketing stuff I've been working on in one place. This is it.

With Georgian Partners, I launched the Scaletech conference aimed at growth-stage companies. Exclusively for senior executives of companies with over $500K/month in revenue, the event brings together investors, founders, and experts to tackle the unique challenges of scale-stage growth: Expanding your company, product, and market while maintaining the pace.

Sebastopol, CA, US

The O'Reilly Strata conference focuses on the business and practice of data.Unprecedented computing power and connectivity are bringing new layers of experience to our lives: a change that brings both opportunity and the challenge of new technologies and skills. The future belongs to those who understand how to collect and use their data.

Sebastopol, CA, US

Boston, MA, US

I don't normally share a lot of business updates here. But I'm pretty excited about this one. I'll be teaching an MBA course entitled "Big Data and Critical Thinking" with Professor Srikant Datar this fall.With data widely proclaimed as the "new oil," teaching tomorrow's business leaders how to use it wisely is essential. It's easy to get caught up in.

Business conference that examines what happens when technology stops being a cost of doing business, and becomes the business. Two-day bilingual event in for executives, marketers, and business innovators with breakouts focused how organizations sense, decide, and act better through technology.

I'll be helping Sean Power, and the outstanding team of Decibel organizers, put on an epic and thought-provoking event this fall at Seattle's annual international festival of electronic music performance, visual art, and new media.

CloudOps helps companies adopt cloud computing. We migrate applications to public and private clouds, then provide round-the-clock operations and optimization. In addition to my duties as analyst for Bitcurrent, the consulting arm of the company, I help out with CloudOps' product strategy and marketing.

Montreal, CA

Year One Labs is a startup accelerator based in Montreal, Canada. We’re dedicated to the Lean Startup methodology, which means the companies we work with undergo a rigorous process of customer development and iterative adjustment. The four partners, and our team of advisors, co-create new ventures alongside the founders we invest in.

Bitcurrent is a technology research company. We publish articles and white papers on web, Internet, and networking, and organize content for a variety of conferences and trade shows. Bitcurrent's principals are experienced executives within the networking industry, many of whom have other full-time positions.

Rednod is a startup accelerator. We provide marketing consulting to new ventures, turning great ideas into successful companies. With Rednod, early-stage firms do three things better:- Anticipate technology trends and market opportunities.- Create products that change what's possible.- Communicate clear messages that inform and compel.

Santa Barbara, California, US

From 2007 to 2010 I wrote articles for GigaOm. I covered a variety of technology events, including Demo2008 Palm Springs, and acted as the MC for the first Structure conference in San Francisco. I also published GigaOm's first report, on cloud computing, which is available for download at.

Visible Government is a public policy organization focused on making governments transparent and providing citizens with easy access to the activities and decisions of public officials.

San Diego, CA, US

I run product and marketing for Coradiant, a maker of web performance monitoring equipment. Our technology watches actual users in real time as they interact with a web application, and reports on the health of the application.My role includes high-level product strategy; company and technology evangelism; corporate and product marketing; and expansion.

San Diego, CA, US

Product strategy, management of R&D and Quality Assurance, advisory-level sales engineering.Responsible for transitioning Coradiant's technology from a managed service provider to an equipment vendor making real-user monitoring appliances for web performance.Lead responsibility for the design, development, and introduction of TrueSight, Coradiant's.

San Diego, CA, US

Secured US $20M for a managed service provider business based in Montreal, Boston, and San Jose. Grew the organization from 10 to 120 people, and actively participated in the recruiting of a CEO for the business.

Along with CTO Eric Packman, I founded Networkshop and served as a principal as we grew the company from 2 to 30 employees.Networkshop was a consulting firm specializing in web-based applications, highly available data center infrastructure, SSL, denial-of-service prevention, and various other technologies used to deliver fast, reliable web applications..

I managed the Data Network Gateway and Universal Access Controller products for Primary Access. These two products allowed dial-up users to connect into IP networks in far greater concentrations than traditional modem-and-cable approaches had allows. The vastly greater port density and easier management meant that they were adopted by America Online.

Marlborough, MA, US

I joined 3Com as a result of the acquisition of Primary Access corporation in 1997. While I had initially focused on dial-up and access concentration technologies, at 3Com I applied this to policy-based networking -- basically deciding what level of capacity users were entitled to, and blending voice, video, and data traffic on a single wire.I was product.