What’s 🔥 in Enterprise IT-VC #222

From What’s Hot in Enterprise IT/VC by Ed Sim — read the original.

Notes

• Bootstrap as a metaphor, meaning to better oneself by one’s own unaided efforts, was in use in 1922. This metaphor spawned additional metaphors for a series of self-sustaining processes that proceed without external help. Bootstrapping
• What scares me the most right now is zero stage startups raising too much capital outside of the gate. Necessity is the mother of all invention and when life is too cushy, one can lose that scrappiness.
• As software developers become critical to value creation in every industry, their productivity is key to business performance. We have the most widely used and loved tool chain to help developers rapidly go from idea to code and code to cloud. Satya Nadella