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The Enterprise Strikes Back

BeyondVC

We are at the beginning stages of one of the biggest IT shifts in history as legacy workloads in the enterprise continue to move to a cloud-native architecture. New architectures = new attack vectors and security needs to be reimagined. Every large enterprise is a software company which means developer productivity is paramount.

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Your cloud data needs a reality check: our investment in Cyera

Cracking the Code

One of the benefits of the cloud is that it gives development teams more agility and flexibility, but with increased flexibility comes the downside of a loss of control and visibility. Many of these products rely on an agent-centric architecture which must be installed on each endpoint in order to monitor data.

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Startup Suicide – Rewriting the Code

Steve Blank

The benefits of customer and agile development and minimum features set are continuous customer feedback, rapid iteration and little wasted code. Ironically it becomes the antithesis of agile. Filed under: Customer Development , Technology , Venture Capital. Making the wrong choice can crater your company.

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Want to Know Difference Between a CTO and a VP of Engineering?

www.bothsidesofthetable.com

Raising Venture Capital. Your deepest thinkers on technology architecture are seldom good team leaders. They know how to estimate work units, how to manage the agile development process and how to get the most out of their teams. As the CEO you can personally help manage deadlines and the Agile process.

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Intel Disrupted: Why large companies find it difficult to innovate, and what they can do about it

Steve Blank

ARM, a competitor, not only had a better, much lower power processor, but a better business model – they licensed their architecture to other companies that designed their own products. Today that’s built on the premise that an x86 architecture is the one best suited for big data. Startups are unencumbered by the status quo.

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Convergent Technologies: War Story 1 – Selling with Sports Scores.

Steve Blank

He complemented their elegantly designed minicomputers and made some astute comment about their architecture (now I’m rolling my eyes, their computers were dinosaurs) and asked who were the brilliant designers. I was surprised to see that they were in the room.

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Joby Aviation is turning science fiction into science fact

Reid Hoffman

How do you build a flying car that’s not just safe enough to fit into the complex architecture and busy rhythms of a city, but also so quiet and so clean it becomes a beneficial asset on multiple fronts? Our model here at RTP is to deliver “venture capital at scale.” For example, Joby works with the U.S.

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