Hot in Enterprise IT/VC - What's 🔥 in Enterprise IT/VC #259
Once upon a time, the word was that you could not make money in venture selling to developers. Well, it’s been an insane past couple of years with IPOs of Datadog, now at a $48B market cap and Gitlab which ended the week after an IPO at a $16.5B market cap 😲. It’s amazing how we went from a world of investors who did not know what DevOps was to one where companies are decacorns many times over. There are so many amazing angles to write about, but this one from Aaron Levie best sums it up for founders… The GitLab story shows the multiple paths to winning in software that 10 years ago few believed. You can build massive value around open source. Your biggest competitor can get acquired by a major player, and the market still grows massively. You can be 100% remote. And so on. There is so much chatter and news and “how tos” on twitter and blog posts but in the end, there is no “one way” to start and build a company. If anyone tells you that, believe otherwise. Be an original, take the best from others and find your own path. The biggest outcomes also come from choosing your own path which in the beginning often feels like this. My own personal experiences include folks telling Rahul at Superhuman he couldn’t scale a business by doing bespoke onboarding…a few years later there was a period of time when everyone was the “Superhuman of X”. New blog post: The "@Superhuman of X"!
It covers:
⚡️ The core product elements of Superhuman
🔍 What "Superhuman of X" startups will look like
💡 Things to consider if you're building one
toddgoldberg.com/posts/superhum… In fact, looking at our portfolio and the 🦄, I can tell you that almost all of them at some point in time had a hard time raising capital with excess of dozens of Nos because folks didn’t believe in the market size, the business model, or what have you but in the end despite what anyone tells you, remember… As always, 🙏🏼 for reading and please share with your friends and colleagues! Scaling Startups
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What's 🔥 in Enterprise IT/VC #258
Saturday, October 9, 2021
More 💰💰💰 = More Competition for Talent
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Saturday, October 2, 2021
📖 Story time from Salesforce - how big can they get and how fast 📈?
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Saturday, September 25, 2021
Supersizing 🍟 of Seed + the race to be 🥇 + bigger is not always better
What's 🔥 in Enterprise IT/VC #255
Saturday, September 18, 2021
Gitlab - focus on community and don't go enterprise too early = 152% Net % Retention and S-1 Filing
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Saturday, September 11, 2021
What does the day one launch of an $8.5 Billion developer first company look like and why developer experience matters?
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