Ed Sim - Issue #17

Feb 17, 2017

back from a few days at RSA, security industry has board level awareness, lots of other great reads on scaling and market for VC

boldstart

sharing some of my notes from this year’s security conference - the year ahead in security tech and VC

Scaling Startups

Numbers that Actually Matter. Finding Your North Star

optimize for user engagement and growth and revenue will follow - great shoutout for boldstart portfolio co, Front!

some key metrics to evaluate for SaaS scaling

SF engineering salaries…wow!

State of Salaries: 2017 State of Global Tech Salaries

Enterprise Tech

RightScale survey shows Microsoft Azure gaining steam in public cloud adoption, while Amazon Web Services holds steady.

why Evernote chose Google; more for Goog’s expertise in unstructured data and Evernote’s strategic approach to do more Machine Learning

hackers are using AI and Machine Learning now and the stakes are higher - great quote from George Avetisov from portfolio co @hypr

Markets

fascinating - almost all equity traders replaced with engineers - what’s next on wall street?

overview of VC landscape from Mark Suster at Upside - lots of money from China and Corporates but the negativity was short lived

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