What's Hot in Enterprise IT/VC - Issue #55
for dev first founders, read Top 10 Lessons from haschicorp founder; big week on blockchain/crypto - Ethereum vulnerability freezes $150mm of assets and crypto mania continues and VCs with differing viewpoints; Salesforce Dreamforce with huge announcement on hosting on Google Cloud and deeper tie-ins to Google Apps
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Scaling Startups
Top 10 Lessons from HashiCorp Founder Armon Dadgar - Going Long
lessons from Hashicorp founder on building an open source based business - remember, āinitial user growth is a long, slow rampā and there is no overnight success story
as I always āmarket the vision, sell the productā - Drift doesnāt pitch a product, they pitch the promised land, making their sales pitch one of the best ever. Find out why and learn more here.
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Enterprise Tech
How Blockchains Will Turn Supply Chains In2 Demand Chains
Casey argues that the value blockchain technology offers to supply-chain management will come once other technologies, such as 3D printing, bring major disruption to global manufacturing and delivery networks.
Salesforce to offer more customized AI with myEinstein | TechCrunch
this is where the world is going - making it easier and easier for end users to engage with AI, Microsoft also embedding data science models in Office, soon it will be point and click
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A major vulnerability has frozen hundreds of millions of dollars of Ethereum | TechCrunch
2nd vulnerability on Ethereum in 4 months - how will this play out for large Fortune 500s looking for stability
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Markets
New Salesforce And Google Partnership Shakes Up The Cloud Race
this is big, this will lead to deeper integration for sure āGoogle and Salesforce have signed a new wide-ranging partnership to integrate their products that could shake up the cloud computing race.ā
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boldstart
Cryptocurrency Mania Fuels Hype and Fear at Venture Firms | WIRED
crypto craze full on, our approach is to not invest in ICOs, weāre focused on blockchain use cases for enterprise
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Don't build security tools, build developer tools instead | CSO Online
great article from Snyk cofounder, Guy Podjarny (full disclosure: my fund boldstart is an investor) need to rethink Security for devs, start dev first and then figure out how to layer in security
The DAO Again? Fears, Forks and Finger-Pointing In Parity Exploit Aftermath - CoinDesk
How does this play out for those large enterprises working on ethereum - with hyperledger fabric no coins to hack https://t.co/43LNAhN5Qa
Twilio sets revenue record in Q3 | ZDNet
developer first and API - driven models are scaling - Twilio surpassed $100 million in quarterly revenue for the first time
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How we closed our $500k seed round ā Blockdaemon
my fundās latest investment, Heroku for blockchain, nodes as a service
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in the fun camp, Iām now only communicating with our Founders with Animojis!
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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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