What's Hot in Enterprise IT/VC - Issue #61

while Cryptomania is pervasive, this week’s newsletter has lots of nuggets of wisdom for scaling startups - fundraising from Kevin Ryan, overcoming failure from Bob Muglia, and the different types of product managers you may need - Happy Holidays!

Scaling Startups

Step-by-Step Fundraising Tactics from the NYC Legend Who Raised $750M | First Round Review

great post on Kevin Ryan’s (fellow coinvestor in Security Scorecard) tactics for raising funds - he’s founder/chairman of Doubleclick, MongoDB, Gilt Groupe, etc

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How Snowflake CEO Bob Muglia triumphed over his career crashes - Business Insider

great article on how Bob overcame setbacks to find his groove - “He found his bootstraps and positive attitude and took the lessons he learned — good and bad — to his first CEO role.”

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The 6 types of Product Managers. Which one do you need?

Solid post from Catherine Ulrich (FirstMark) on the different types of product managers and who may be best for your company

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Playing Your Role – AVC

great post as always from Fred Wilson on how VCs have to serve different roles depending on the company and its needs

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Enterprise Tech

Scoop: Amazon in talks to buy cybersecurity startup Sqrrl - Axios

if you are an infrastructure startup don’t bet on selling to Amazon or AWS, it won’t be a great exit for you. if this is true, the trend continues - AWS will not pay up for startups - Scoop: Amazon in talks to buy cybersecurity startup Sqrrl via @axios

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Kubernetes Trends at KubeCon 2017 – manifoldco

solid overview of trends on K8s from portfolio co Manifold

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Markets

Sequoia's reportedly raising a new $6 billion fund - Business Insider

Mega, mega is next step - pressure from Softbank Vision Fund forcing some of larger VCs to respond

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Goldman Is Setting Up a Cryptocurrency Trading Desk - Bloomberg

Whoa - crypto going mainstream depsite the massive crash in last 2 days

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This pizza stock has outperformed Apple, Amazon, Google and Netflix

Dominos, yes Dominos - went all tech and is crushing it, great example of how every company is a tech company ,more software devs than anyone else in company now

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boldstart

4 Tactical Moves to Elevate Your Business’ Cybersecurity Program | HuffPost

Aleksander Yampolskiy, CEO + Cofounder of SecurityScorecard (portfolio co) riffs on taking your cybersecurity program to the next level

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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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