What's Hot in Enterprise IT/VC - Issue #44
a big week and all about blockchain, blockchain, blockchain - we just announced the first accelerator on Hyperledger Fabric; Fortune started a new side publication called Ledger and has great overview article, IBM announced Walmart, Kroger and others using blockchain to track food ingredients from source to distribution…
boldstart
Boldstart Ventures Launches Hyperledger Fabric's First Blockchain Accelerator - CoinDesk
we r rolling out first accelerator on Hyperledger Fabric blockchain - lots of corporates using and want to bring more startups to the platform
Scaling Startups
Post IPO, Cloudera Reflects on Its Two Year ABSD Journey
great article on Cloudera journey - building out the demand gen engine for sales - automating marketing and empowering Sales
Enterprise Tech
Google Snags Marketo as New Cloud Customer | Fortune.com
huge win for Google Cloud - not just consumer but enterprise SaaS as well
Microsoft Announces Project Brainwave To Take On Google's AI Hardware Lead
Microsoft entering chip fray with Intel partnership but not purpose built ASIC like Google but more flexible FPGA which can support multiple frameworks for machine learning
Bitcoin Ethereum: How Blockchain Tech Is Revolutionizing Business | Fortune.com
not just ICOs - i’m a big believer in blockchain for enterprises like supply chain and other use cases
Walmart, Kroger & Nestle Team with IBM Blockchain to Fight Food Poisoning, CoinDesk
blockchain hitting production in enterprise and nots financial - its supply chain and other industries
despite the enteprise blockchain hype, I do agree on the following: “It will take years to transform business, but the journey begins now.” - need to find the early wins where the creator has control to bring other participants onboard
Markets
Salesforce reports second-quarter sales, earnings that top estimates
wow - salesforce hits $10b annual revenue run rate!
Is Social Capital trying to end-run banks by creating IPO 2.0? - Recode
big idea - creating a blank check IPO to roll a company into - its been around for awhile but nice to see some innovation in the tech space
“A filing from the investment firm could allow startups to go public without Goldman Sachs or Morgan Stanley.”
Cisco continuing to move to software only…
Cisco has agreed to acquire Springpath for $320 million in cash
By Ed Sim
Ed Sim's weekly readings and notes on VC, software, and scaling startups - #enterprise #seed #DeveloperFirst #IntelligentAutomation #DataInfra #CloudNative #Cybersecurity
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