What's Hot in Enterprise IT/VC - Issue #56
some great articles on scaling startups from lessons learned on failure to how to get a team to move forward successfully; use of AI from hackers is here and growing - harder for enterprises to defend than for hackers to attack and a solid report from Snyk (a portfolio company) on the state of open source security
Scaling Startups
How Coca-Cola, Netflix, and Amazon Learn from Failure
failing is a consequence of betting big - Encourage your team to embrace mistakes.
Disagree and Commit - A Management Principle for Highly Functioning Teams
Simple and solid advice via Tomasz Tunguz and Jeff Bezos and Andy Grove - let everyone disagree but once a decision is made, everyone fully commits
Zapier's Wade Foster on bringing easy automation to the enterprise - Inside Intercom
amazing perspective from Zapier founder, which has raised only $1.3mm funding and now growing rapidly
Enterprise Tech
Era of AI-Powered Cyberattacks Has Started - CIO Journal. - WSJ
unfortunately it’s easier for hackers to use AI to attack vs companies to defend, offense knows what they are doing and defense is much harder
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang Is Fortune's 2017 Businessperson of the Year | Fortune
solid story on Nvidia CEO on transformation from gaming to AI chip powerhouse
Homeland Security team remotely hacked a Boeing 757 | CSO Online
everything that is connected can and will be hacked - this is scary stuff
IBM makes 20 qubit quantum computing machine available as a cloud service | TechCrunch
advancements coming at rapid pace but key is “logical” qubit which means error corrected, not just number of qubits - IBM has been offering quantum computing as a cloud service since last year when it came out with a 5 qubit version of the advanced computers. Today, the..
The bitcoin price means boardrooms are now obsessed with blockchain — Quartz
we are witnessing the same phenomenon, every corporate we talk to is talking about the blockchain
Markets
Forecasters Eye Enterprise Tech Innovation - CIO Journal. - WSJ
awsome when the large mutual funds see the promise of enterprise IT - “It’s a sweet spot to be, ” Mr. Allen said about enterprise IT.“
Email marketer SendGrid up 13% following IPO | TechCrunch
great IPO for SendGrid which delivers a billion emails a day - raised $131mm and priced at $16 and closed on day 1 at $18
boldstart
The State of Open Source Security 2017
awesome report on growth of open source and current state of security - remember Equifax was a victim of an unpatched Struts vulnerability
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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