Hot in Enterprise IT/VC - What’s 🔥 in Enterprise IT/VC #427
What’s 🔥 in Enterprise IT/VC #427The 15 year startup journey and implications for founders and investorsWelcome to 2025 and the death of venture capital as we know it 🤣. Death is an extreme, but we can all agree that it must adapt. There was lots of discussion online this week about the future of VC and exits, so here’s my take. First, this data 👇🏼 has huge implications for founders and VCs as the median age from incorporation to primary round stage continues to lengthen. When I began my venture capital career in 1996, it was a bespoke, cottage industry and I remember the rule of thumb for time from founding a company to IPO was around 7 years. Look at the data now - it’s 8.1 years to just get to a Series D round! There is, of course, so much more private capital out there, the bar to going public is super high, and it’s not easy to build on a quarterly basis. But wow, now it takes 8.1 years just to get a Series D round done! Garry summarizes it well! Jason also chimes in on the 15+ year plan to IPO which is double the length of time from when I started in VC in 1996. All of this has huge implications for founders and investors!
And comments on posts like this from Jason. More to come in 2025 and Happy New Year! As always, 🙏🏼 for reading and please share with your friends and colleagues. Scaling Startups#15 lessons from best founders in history #lots of debate out there on who is Tier 1 VC vs Tier 3 and only raise from Tier 1s but reminder for founders… #Founders ABS Always Be Selling #so good… #venture debt lessons from abrupt shutdown of Bench Enterprise Tech#so many opportunities for founders to think about second order effects for more AI-generated code, something I’ve been focused on for awhile #spot on with my predictions 🤣 - more VC predictions on what’s 🔥 in the enterprise in 2025 #do agents need a holiday break? #Hubspot co-founder and CTO Dharmesh Shah 3 Predictions for 2025 (nice shoutout for CrewAI, a boldstart portfolio co)
#great roundup of AI in 2024 from Jim Fan Nvidia Sr. Research Mgr 🧵 #solid list of AI products to check out… #Augment or replace? I’m about incredible efficiency and for now devs will do way more work with AI superpowers - the future TBD #and around and around we go - more $ invested from strategics into startups and the more $ they get back - Nvidia invested $1B last year into startups, up from 872M prior year (FT)
Markets#Dan Ives from Wedbush shares his prediction for tech stocks in 2025 #must read on how $7.8B became $70b 👀 some of 🧵 here What's Hot 🔥 in Enterprise IT/VC is free today. But if you enjoyed this post, you can tell What's Hot 🔥 in Enterprise IT/VC that their writing is valuable by pledging a future subscription. You won't be charged unless they enable payments. |
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What’s 🔥 in Enterprise IT/VC #426
Saturday, December 28, 2024
What's 🔥 Greatest Hits from 2024, one VC's year-end recap, + advice as you enter 2025 to build your new thing... ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏
What’s 🔥 in Enterprise IT/VC #425
Saturday, December 21, 2024
Will business applications collapse in the agent era? Where does logic go + what are the "second order" effects when dozens or hundreds of agents are running amok at enterprises? ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏
What’s 🔥 in Enterprise IT/VC #424
Thursday, December 19, 2024
SaaS T2D3 (Triple-Triple-Double-Double) over for now? Do we have a new AI bar - QQTD(Quintuple-Quadruple-Triple-Double) or QQ?? as we don't know if this is sustainable ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏
What’s 🔥 in Enterprise IT/VC #423
Tuesday, December 10, 2024
How do CIOs/CTOs/CISOs from Salesforce, Blackstone, Paypal and Juniper think about partnering with startups + AWS re:Invent recap ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏
What’s 🔥 in Enterprise IT/VC #422
Saturday, November 30, 2024
The continued rise of Jumbo Inception Rounds 📈, the importance of ball control 🏀 in winning rounds, and how Inception/seed firms need to decide what game to play and what fund size is right ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏
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