Hot in Enterprise IT/VC - What's 🔥 in Enterprise IT/VC #275
What's 🔥 in Enterprise IT/VC #275☁️ is still on 🔥 + what to look for in journey from OSS project to company
The ☁️ continues to be on 🔥. Eric Savitz from Barron’s summed it up best this week:
It’s not just last quarter but also contract backlog that signals continued strength for the ☁️. My favorite quote from the earnings call transcript: "Alphabet's backlog increased more than 70% to $51 billion, most of which is attributed to Google Cloud."
For many years, infrastructure investing was such a backwater, unsexy area to invest and now we have tweets like below going viral. To all early stage founders, let me save you two years of flailing. Whatever idea you have, just pivot to building infrastructure for that idea instead. 😆 Founders, ignore the markets as great companies will continue to get funded at premium valuations as the flight to quality is on. Keep your heads down, focus on your users, and keep building. And also talk to 🐅 as it just raised $11B for its new fund. Speaking of users, I was recently on the Console.dev podcast talking about day one of an open source project and the need for founders to start with an atomic unit of one user, how to make that one user’s life infinitely better with their product, before expanding to 10 and then 100 and 1000 (clip below). Too often founders rush to amp their numbers up and ignore the quality, the understanding of who is using their project and why. EP5 of the Console DevTools podcast is here.
🚧 Find out how to develop a side project into an investible business. Listen to @edsim, founder of @Boldstartvc discuss how to scale a devtools start up.
Listen now: podcast.console.dev/episodes/s02e0… Your next investors should also appreciate and understand the patience needed and the focus on user stories versus the overall number of users if they are going to be your right next partner. Finally, for those founders who are sitting on a huge balance sheet of cash after having raised a preemptive round of funding, remember this: Reminder for founders...don't lose your hacker mentality no matter how much 💰 you raise or how big you get Ed Sim @edsim Founders, no matter how much 💰 you raise, remember to not lose your scrappiness - speed is one of your advantages and I've seen some founders opt for too much process too early, need to layer on appropriately as you scaleAs always, 🙏🏼 for reading and please share with your friends and colleagues. Let’s go ☁️! Scaling Startups
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