What's Hot in Enterprise IT/VC

By Ed Sim

Ed Sim's weekly readings and notes on VC, software, and scaling startups - #enterprise #seed #DeveloperFirst #IntelligentAutomation #DataInfra #Decentralized

Previous issues

What's Hot in Enterprise IT/VC - Issue #111

#111 Dec 8, 2018

What's Hot in Enterprise IT/VC - Issue #110

#110 Dec 1, 2018

What's Hot in Enterprise IT/VC - Issue #109

#109 Nov 24, 2018

#108

Nov 17, 2018

What's Hot in Enterprise IT/VC - Issue #108 – another week and another huge buy with SAP buying Qualtrics for $8 billion and Vista buying Apptio fo
#107

Nov 11, 2018

What's Hot in Enterprise IT/VC - Issue #107 – another big week for open source and cloud infra as Heptio bought by VMware to bring k8s mainstream,
#106

Nov 3, 2018

What's Hot in Enterprise IT/VC - Issue #106 – Open source on fire with IBM acquiring Red Hat for $34 billion, Hashicorp raises at $1.9 billion valu
#105

Oct 27, 2018

What's Hot in Enterprise IT/VC - Issue #105 – Lots on AI this week - China, enterprise, and Walmart; Github acquisition is code complete; Aaron Lev
#104

Oct 20, 2018

What's Hot in Enterprise IT/VC - Issue #104 – my faves this week are around scaling your first enterprise customers from Martin Casado a16z, Grant
#103

Oct 14, 2018

What's Hot in Enterprise IT/VC - Issue #103 – big news of week was around the stock market and Nasdaq drop of 3.7% for week and whether a minor cor
#102

Oct 6, 2018

What's Hot in Enterprise IT/VC - Issue #102 – in infrastructure land a couple interesting events; on one hand Elastic Search goes public and double
#101

Sep 30, 2018

What's Hot in Enterprise IT/VC - Issue #101 – big week for customer data as SAP, Adobe, and Microsoft partner on Open Data Initiative and Salesforc
#100

Sep 22, 2018

What's Hot in Enterprise IT/VC - Issue #100 – this week's news is all about automation/future of work - UIPath raises at $3 billion valuation, McKi
#99

Sep 15, 2018

What's Hot in Enterprise IT/VC - Issue #99 – More in-depth reads this week, primer on cryptography in a world of quantum; what is chaos engineerin
#98

Sep 8, 2018

What's Hot in Enterprise IT/VC - Issue #98 – this week's reads most interesting reads are on scaling startups; listen to SaaStr Podcast I did with
#97

Sep 1, 2018

What's Hot in Enterprise IT/VC - Issue #97 – This week it's all about dev ops and open source; a heated debate about Redis Labs changing it's OSS
#96

Aug 25, 2018

What's Hot in Enterprise IT/VC - Issue #96 – some awesome reads this week esp if you are a startup enterprise founder; product led growth from ope
#95

Aug 18, 2018

What's Hot in Enterprise IT/VC - Issue #95 – this week it's not about the tech but the real problem of burnout, Elon Musk 120 hour weeks and final
#94

Aug 11, 2018

What's Hot in Enterprise IT/VC - Issue #94 – another week and more discussion on automation and jobs from the NYTimes and Harvard Business Review;
#93

Aug 4, 2018

What's Hot in Enterprise IT/VC - Issue #93 – last week I wrote about Google Titan and 2FA (two factor authentication) and how this was going to he
#92

Jul 28, 2018

What's Hot in Enterprise IT/VC - Issue #92 – Serverless and security are the flavors of the week: serverless is moving more loads into production
#91

Jul 21, 2018

What's Hot in Enterprise IT/VC - Issue #91 – This week it's all about automation, security and cloud plus a few solid reads on what makes great le
#90

Jul 14, 2018

What's Hot in Enterprise IT/VC - Issue #90 – Great market overviews on serverless (Ron Miller Techcrunch), AI/Human partnership in enterprises (Ac
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Jul 7, 2018

What's Hot in Enterprise IT/VC - Issue #89 – AI is top of mind again this week, we have the State of AI from Nathan Benaich, similar to Mary Meeke
#88

Jul 1, 2018

What's Hot in Enterprise IT/VC - Issue #88 – GDPR and AI all the rage this week as portfolio co BigID raises another $30mm led by Scale Venture Pa
#87

Jun 23, 2018

What's Hot in Enterprise IT/VC - Issue #87 – NYC enterprise tech is cranking as portfolio co Kustomer raised $26mm in a Series B led by Redpoint V
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Jun 16, 2018

What's Hot in Enterprise IT/VC - Issue #86 – NYC Enterprise tech cranking; congrats to portfolio co Kustomer on their $26mm raise to go after Zend
#85

Jun 9, 2018

What's Hot in Enterprise IT/VC - Issue #85 – All about devs this week as Microsoft buys Github for $7.5 billion, yes $7.5 billion and Apple kicks
#84

Jun 2, 2018

What's Hot in Enterprise IT/VC - Issue #84 – Salesforce earnings still cranking along with Box; Domo files IPO but burning lots of cash still; Mic
#83

May 28, 2018

What's Hot in Enterprise IT/VC - Issue #83 – Happy Memorial Day! Solid reads on JP Morgan and blockchain but also where else they are spending the
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May 19, 2018

What's Hot in Enterprise IT/VC - Issue #82 – Blockchain insanity this week as Coindesk held the Consensus conference in NYC with 90 minute waiting
#81

May 12, 2018

What's Hot in Enterprise IT/VC - Issue #81 – post-mortem from Fieldbook founder going bottom up with a complex business product; Microsoft Build C
#80

May 5, 2018

What's Hot in Enterprise IT/VC - Issue #80 – Must read from my friends at Battery Ventures on the state of the Enterprise Cloud and SaaS markets -
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Apr 28, 2018

What's Hot in Enterprise IT/VC - Issue #79 – Must read on changing dynamics and gap between first check VC round to Series A; special report on th
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Apr 21, 2018

What's Hot in Enterprise IT/VC - Issue #78 – Digital transformation in large enterprises move on as cloud native platform co Pivotal has successf
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Apr 13, 2018

What's Hot in Enterprise IT/VC - Issue #77 – enterprise is hot - IPOs like Zuora and Pivotal (on tap), enterprise software spending to grow 11.1%
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Apr 7, 2018

What's Hot in Enterprise IT/VC - Issue #76 – If you are in NYC next week and interested in scaling infrastructure sales in the Fortune 500, come t
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Mar 30, 2018

What's Hot in Enterprise IT/VC - Issue #75 – I finally had a chance to write some of my thoughts down on the enterprise infrastructure market in "
#74

Mar 24, 2018

What's Hot in Enterprise IT/VC - Issue #74 – This week has all been about the big public enterprise companies - Dropbox with hugely successful IPO
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Mar 16, 2018

What's Hot in Enterprise IT/VC - Issue #73 – if you were ever wondering on what was the optimal number of VCs on a board, read Too Many VC Cooks..
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Mar 9, 2018

What's Hot in Enterprise IT/VC - Issue #72 – S&P $550mm buy of Kensho to infuse AI into their products was big news of the week and I'm sure w
#71

Mar 2, 2018

What's Hot in Enterprise IT/VC - Issue #71 – Dropbox filed IPO last week but what was most fascinating is their claim they are saving almost $75mm
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Feb 23, 2018

What's Hot in Enterprise IT/VC - Issue #70 – this week is about scaling startups and helping entrepreneurs think through what a CEO does as their
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Feb 16, 2018

What's Hot in Enterprise IT/VC - Issue #69 – catch my interview with friends at Heavybit on how we work with enterprise founders and what founder
#68

Feb 9, 2018

What's Hot in Enterprise IT/VC - Issue #68 – some fascinating reads for the techies on machines on wall street amplifying market correction from t
#67

Feb 2, 2018

What's Hot in Enterprise IT/VC - Issue #67 – big cloud providers crushing it on revenue with AWS hitting over $5b of quarterly rev and Google clou
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Jan 25, 2018

What's Hot in Enterprise IT/VC - Issue #66 – Great summary of Infosys survey on 1000 enterprises on use of AI; all about GDPR - best simple overvi
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Jan 19, 2018

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
#64

Jan 12, 2018

What's Hot in Enterprise IT/VC - Issue #64 – finally got MState.io launched (our blockchain lab in partnership with IBM and Comcast Ventures); som
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Jan 5, 2018

What's Hot in Enterprise IT/VC - Issue #63 – Happy New Year! I'm super pumped about enterprise tech in 2018 and please read my medium post on our
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Dec 29, 2017

What's Hot in Enterprise IT/VC - Issue #62 – Happy Holidays! This week runs the gamut from quantum computing to understanding the black box of dee
#61

Dec 22, 2017

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 star
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Dec 15, 2017

What's Hot in Enterprise IT/VC - Issue #60 – Cryptokitties and currencies the rage this week - read my post below on why cryptokitties is killer a
#59

Dec 8, 2017

What's Hot in Enterprise IT/VC - Issue #59 – The Twittersphere was blowing up over Pitchbook data claiming a "seed slowdown" and loss of first che
#58

Dec 1, 2017

What's Hot in Enterprise IT/VC - Issue #58 – AWS Re:invent week - way too many announcements to keep track of but some big ones are AWS Fargate -
#57

Nov 24, 2017

What's Hot in Enterprise IT/VC - Issue #57 – great slide deck on what makes best in class enterprise software companies; why zero knowledge proof
#56

Nov 17, 2017

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
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Nov 10, 2017

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 -
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Nov 3, 2017

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
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Oct 27, 2017

What's Hot in Enterprise IT/VC - Issue #53 – all about corporate earnings this week and AWS and MSFT blowing past estimates on cloud revenue; must
#52

Oct 20, 2017

What's Hot in Enterprise IT/VC - Issue #52 – congrats to MongoDB on IPO - closed at $1.6b value on first day showing that open source and database
#51

Oct 13, 2017

What's Hot in Enterprise IT/VC - Issue #51 – surprise of week is Microsoft and AWS partnering on AI to offset Google Tensorflow adoption, Github c
#50

Oct 6, 2017

What's Hot in Enterprise IT/VC - Issue #50 – lots of news on cloud and blockchain - Oracle Open world where Larry announces their entrance into bl
#49

Sep 29, 2017

What's Hot in Enterprise IT/VC - Issue #49 – must reads in Scaling Startups - from enterprise selling to essential advice from YC for founders and
#48

Sep 22, 2017

What's Hot in Enterprise IT/VC - Issue #48 – MongoDB files for IPO - revs growing but so are losses, great report by PWC on Applied AI and lots of
#47

Sep 15, 2017

What's Hot in Enterprise IT/VC - Issue #47 – a tried and true challenge, how startups can move upstream to true enterprise sales - read below for
#46

Sep 8, 2017

What's Hot in Enterprise IT/VC - Issue #46 – security is top of mind this week with the massive hack at Equifax and exposing 143 million Social Se
#45

Sep 1, 2017

What's Hot in Enterprise IT/VC - Issue #45 – last weekend of summer! this week's news all about AI - must read on the prep needed to even start ru
#44

Aug 25, 2017

What's Hot in Enterprise IT/VC - Issue #44 – a big week and all about blockchain, blockchain, blockchain - we just announced the first accelerator
#43

Aug 18, 2017

What's Hot in Enterprise IT/VC - Issue #43 – new Gartner Hype Cycle with Deep and Machine Learning hitting peak, must read article on startups sel
#42

Aug 11, 2017

What's Hot in Enterprise IT/VC - Issue #42 – AI and automation, some blockchain, and a little ML sprinkled in - chart below is amazing and I do be
#41

Aug 4, 2017

What's Hot in Enterprise IT/VC - Issue #41 – great interview with Mathilde Collin (front cofounder) on who she 3xd revenue in 11 months, AI is eve
#40

Jul 28, 2017

What's Hot in Enterprise IT/VC - Issue #40 – digital transformation march continues, AI on the edge with Qualcomm, polkadot.io and the multichain,
#39

Jul 21, 2017

What's Hot in Enterprise IT/VC - Issue #39 – cloud is cranking, AWS teams with VMWare to help enterprises move legacy to cloud, MSFT cloud revenue
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Jul 14, 2017

What's Hot in Enterprise IT/VC - Issue #38 – all about corporate IT Budgets, Gartner seeing continued growth in enterprise software spend (remembe
#37

Jul 7, 2017

What's Hot in Enterprise IT/VC - Issue #37 – Happy 4th and Canada Day! In world of data and AI, the Deepmind deal with NHS being ruled illegal is
#36

Jun 30, 2017

What's Hot in Enterprise IT/VC - Issue #36 – as tech stocks got hammered this week, the march of ethereum as a platform continues, cloud foundry b
#35

Jun 23, 2017

What's Hot in Enterprise IT/VC - Issue #35 – recurring themes for this week's newsletter - the march of machine learning and automation continues
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Jun 16, 2017

What's Hot in Enterprise IT/VC - Issue #34 – tough week for tech stocks as they've dropped around 4%, read more interesting articles on scaling st
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Jun 9, 2017

What's Hot in Enterprise IT/VC - Issue #33 – enterprise tech continues to be on fire; okta beating earnings and every company becoming a tech comp
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Jun 2, 2017

What's Hot in Enterprise IT/VC - Issue #32 – if I could sum the week, I can only say ICOs and crypto assets - oh yeah, enterprise move to cloud na
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May 26, 2017

What's Hot in Enterprise IT/VC - Issue #31 – the recurring theme for this week - every company is a tech company, CIOs are strategic and investing
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May 19, 2017

What's Hot in Enterprise IT/VC - Issue #30 – no links for Wanncry here :-) - must read from our friends at Battery on SaaS/software market today a
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May 12, 2017

What's Hot in Enterprise IT/VC - Issue #29 – great article on not getting caught up in startup rat race of raising more and more capital from Zapi
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May 5, 2017

What's Hot in Enterprise IT/VC - Issue #28 – busy week - if you're interested in what's going on in SaaS market, check out my post from HackerNoon
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Apr 28, 2017

What's Hot in Enterprise IT/VC - Issue #27 – light week but I encourage you to read article from Andy Dunn about picking a VC partner and shameles
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Apr 21, 2017

What's Hot in Enterprise IT/VC - Issue #26 – this is big - should unlock more enterprise growth - docker helping move legacy apps to containers; w
#25

Apr 14, 2017

What's Hot in Enterprise IT/VC - Issue #25 – great reads this week from Jeff Bezos on how he is keeping Amazon relevant and ahead to managing your
#24

Apr 7, 2017

Ed Sim - Issue #24 – two must read posts on scaling enterprise startups, one from a sales perspective from AppD CEO and on
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Mar 31, 2017

Ed Sim - Issue #23 – enteprise tech IPOs are hot, hot, hot and banks leading the charge on cloud and AI from JP Morgan put
#22

Mar 24, 2017

Ed Sim - Issue #22 – roundup this week: why prof. services and on-prem still matter in cloud world, how to get your custom
#21

Mar 17, 2017

Ed Sim - Issue #21 – great roundup this week - i had a great time participating on CXO Talk discussing AI, solid discussio
#20

Mar 11, 2017

Ed Sim - Issue #20 – big week for enterprise cloud as Pivotal announces over $270mm rev from Cloud Foundry in 1/3 of Fortu
#19

Mar 3, 2017

Ed Sim - Issue #19 – must read on 3 critical hires for startups from Mathilde at Front along with a great backdrop on how
#18

Feb 25, 2017

Ed Sim - Issue #18 – awesome reads on scaling startups with Intercom's impressive metrics and Drew Houston's lessons learn
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Feb 17, 2017

Ed Sim - Issue #17 – back from a few days at RSA, security industry has board level awareness, lots of other great reads o
#16

Feb 10, 2017

Ed Sim - Issue #16 – lots of SaaS this week from my post on BeyondVC on the Enterprise Collaboration Wars to words of wisd
#15

Feb 4, 2017

Ed Sim - Issue #15 – great advice for founders from how to optimize for a rocket ship or airplane in terms of creating val
#14

Jan 27, 2017

Ed Sim - Issue #14 – great reads on open source business models and why one company failed and one is changing its pricing
#13

Jan 21, 2017

Ed Sim - Issue #13 – enterprise voice, NLP, and amazing multiple for Atlassian acquisition of Trello
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Jan 13, 2017

Ed Sim - Issue #12 – some great reads this week on marketing to devs, saas metrics, and how Microsoft can become the voice
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Jan 6, 2017

weekly readings - all things enterprise saas and infrastructure from a seed VC – Some great reads this week; the story on dropbox is interesting in thinking about how the bottom-up s
#10

Jan 1, 2017

Ed Sim - Issue #10 – Happy New Year! Standard predictions for 2017 in enterprise tech, security and a great article on pro
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Dec 26, 2016

all things enterprise saas and infrastructure from a seed VC – some great articles this past week on longer term markets - data on the VC model to AWS world ambitio
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Dec 16, 2016

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Dec 9, 2016

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Nov 29, 2016

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Nov 22, 2016

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Nov 14, 2016

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Nov 4, 2016

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Oct 30, 2016

Ed Sim - Issue #2 – My random weekly readings with commentary on scaling startups and new infrastructure tech
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Oct 22, 2016

Revue issue – random readings from the week...