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The Enterprise Strikes Back

BeyondVC

Couple that with Mulesoft being bought for 21x TTM revenue ( see Tomasz Tunguz analysis ) at $6.5 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.

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The CEO’s CEO

Ben's Blog

When Alfred presented the acquisition to BEA’s board of directors, one prominent board member said: “if you think that this company is going to pay $150M for a company with $150K in revenue, you are out of your f&%!$n’ So how would Alfred, coming off a role managing thousands of people, billions of dollars in revenue, and achieving an $8.5B

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Bubble Trouble? I Don’t Think So

Ben's Blog

To find out whether or not today’s public technology companies have hit bubble valuations, let’s compare some companies that survived the great bubble with their bubble era valuations: The Enterprise Value-to-Revenue multiple (EV/Rev) and Price-to-Earnings multiple (PE) are commonly used metrics to tell the valuation:value story. Much better.

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How to hire a programmer to make your ideas happen

sivers.org

Architecture and frameworks can/should be planned up front to at least "leave room" for things that are known to be coming at a later date. Therefore that developer will either learn the semantics of the last or simply institute her own. Yes its great to implement "task A", but will it drive revenue?