What's Hot in Enterprise IT/VC - Issue #65
Theme of 2018 - what can be blockchained will be blockchained - not necessarily a great thing but my news feeds and inbox seem to be dominated by blockchain these days; lots of discussion ML and automation, solid reads on scaling company culture and thinking about pricing models
listen in on my talk on Bloomberg Radio on enterprise blockchain adoption in 2018
Ken Leon, Equity Analyst at CFRA, and Arnold Kakuda, Bloomberg Intelligence Banking Analyst, get into the particulars of JP Morgan and Wells Fargo earnings. Scott Devitt, Internet & Media Analyst at Stifel Financial, and Jitendra Waral, Bloomberg…
Intelligent automation Holy Grail? A NYC VC shares his thoughts | Cintrifuse
My thoughts on why Intelligent Automation and why I am so excited about adding a cognitive layer to automating business processes - “Cintrifuse is excited to showcase our Active Network by bringing Ed Sim to our blog to discuss the future of intelligent automation in the workplace.”
Scaling Startups
Ten Year's Worth of Learnings About Pricing
great post on how to think about pricing, pricing also dictates your gotomarket strategy
How to scale hiring without breaking company culture - Version One
Great post by co-investor Boris Wertz on scaling without sacrificing culture
Enterprise Tech
Cloud AutoML: Making AI accessible to every business
this is huge news, democratizing #machinelearning - trend will be moving from engineers to business analysts via goog sheets - happening rapidly - “To make AI accessible to every business, we’re introducing Cloud AutoML, which helps businesses with limited ML expertise start building their own high-quality custom models with advanced techniques like learning2learn and transfer learning from Google.”
Here’s what all 30 companies that make up the Dow industrials think about blockchain - MarketWatch
who’s got a POV on the blockchain from the Dow 30 - fascinating
From Big Data to Big Intelligence: Six Key Trends Shaping IT for 2018 - Direct2DellEMC
move to edge intelligence, security culture, and digital transformation - solid read
Blockchain, AI to Drive IT Spending - CIO Journal. - WSJ
Love #blockchain but trust me it isn’t the main driver of the IT Spending, still in pilot at many large enterprises, some moving to production in 2018, promising but early days - “Worldwide information-technology spending is expected to hit $3.7 trillion this year, up 4.5% over 2017, Gartner Inc. says.”
Markets
IBM Revenue Grows for the First Time Since 2012 - WSJ
IBM first up qtr in 23 qtrs driven by cloud and Watson - still a ways to go…
boldstart
Slice Serves Up Automated Workflows with Kustomer - CRM Magazine
How Kustomer (portfolio co) is reinventing support with a customer-centric instead of ticket centric view and the ability to create automated workflow
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Beyond the Bitcoin Bubble - The New York Times
Yes, it’s driven by greed — but the mania for cryptocurrency could wind up building something much more important than wealth.
IBM Revenue Grows for the First Time Since 2012 - WSJ
IBM first up quarter in 23 qtrs, new spending driven by their cloud and Watson
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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