What's Hot in Enterprise IT/VC - Issue #54
all about education this week; nice primer on how enterprises can think about blockchain; what is new definition of cloud native vs the old one, and why AI will create more jobs in long run than is lost
Scaling Startups
How to Be a C.E.O., From a Decade’s Worth of Them - NYTimes.com
applied curiosity, love challenges, do current job well and that will get you moving upstream
2017 Private SaaS Company Survey – Part 2 | For Entrepreneurs
for all you SaaS metric junkies here is Part 2 which “dives into: Application delivery methods, Operational costs and gross margins, Contract terms, Retention and churn, Capital requirements, & Accounting methods.”
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Enterprise Tech
Cloud-Native, Seven Years On... - The New Stack
what does it mean to be cloud native? Must read…
Digital Object and Blockchain | Accenture
how to think about enterprise blockchain - rethink data ownership and digital objects - great primer
AI will eliminate 1.8M jobs but create 2.3M by 2020, claims Gartner - TechRepublic
so true - we don’t know yet but if history shows, new technologies may eliminate jobs in near term but create new ones in long term
Some thoughts on “the top contributors to GitHub 2017”. – James Governor's Monkchips
wow - Pivotal contributing as much open source as IBM which is 150x bigger!
Mastercard’s boss just told a Saudi audience that ‘data is the new oil’
not a surprise here but when you tell the largest oil producers in world…
Markets
Bitcoin Moves Toward Mainstream, Poised to Join Oil, Gold in Futures Trading - WSJ
bitcoin up big on this - hit over 7k - “CME will launch a futures contract based on bitcoin, a big step toward moving the digital currency into the financial mainstream.”
One Bitcoin Transaction Now Uses as Much Energy as Your House in a Week - Motherboard
whoa! Bitcoin’s surge in price has sent its electricity consumption soaring.
boldstart
What lessons can companies learn from major data breaches?
trifecta of boldstart cos mentioned in this article - Snyk, Security Scorecard, Hypr - With recent data breaches in Deloitte and Equifax in the public eye, what should companies be doing to secure their networks?
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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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