The beauty of all the macro trends in the enterprise right now (cloud, big data, BYOD, etc) are that they're not just buzz words. They've been forcing functions for large corporations to move off legacy incumbents who can't keep up and to leverage startup tech across all areas of their business and IT infrastructure.
Check out www.work-bench.com/startups for a list of a bunch of companies selling true enterprise-class deals and doing a great job at it.
Hi guys, I'm the organizer of the NY Enterprise Technology Meetup (www.meetup.com/ny-enterprise-tech). It was a great talk, and Fred shared a lot of relevant feedback for entrepreneurs working on enterprise technology.
Couldn't agree more. What separates an "idea person" from a potential true entrepreneur, is that in order to find a technical co-founder they would begin doing everything else to make their product a reality. Things from having a detailed idea of how their product should work, to preparing mockups and wireframes, to writing website/app copy, etc that you can hand off to your developer and say "Build this"
Hey Matt - I'm the founder/organizer of the NY Enterprise Technology Meetup, the first monthly tech forum in NYC exclusively focused on enterprise tech company demos. Are you able to connect me with someone from the team so that I can inquire about them demoing at a future event?
We launched in January of this year, have almost 1,000 members, and get about 125 attendees to each events (mix of technologists, entrepreneurs, investors, and students). Check us out at www.meetup.com/ny-enterprise-tech and www.nyetm.com.
Love the detail in this. Nailing the pitch and finding who to send it to are so obvious, yet most people don't know how to properly do so. Great advice here.
I like how it can apply to all the use cases you mention above, and also how they have a variety of demo videos on their website demonstrating them. About to try it out now for my startup.
When I was in high school with plenty of time on my hands I turned my hobby of playing Everquest into a pretty lucrative business (especially for a 17yr old). I found it amazing what people would pay for items to help advance their characters, especially those who were older and had limited time, and thus wanted to minimize time-sinks.
Agreed/is there a way for alumni/others to get involved? SAS '09 up in NYC and would love to be notified when these are happening if to just come down and see them in person (would also be glad to help out).
Yes would love to learn more about Penn tech events (for current students and alums). I'm an M&T grad.
In NYC, I just learned about the Penn NY Tech meetup (http://www.meetup.com/Penn-NY-Tech) which maybe worth checking out. (note: I'm not an organizer/affiliated)
Definitely agree, would be cool to know about this and similar events. For those of us in NYC, there are some solid Penn tech and VC groups on Meetup worth checking out.
re your point: "For all we know that company might have created some revolutionary technology but, who knows, their build system is still crappy and they forgot to change a symlink somewhere?"
if you're prepping for a meeting with such an influential person (regardless of your thoughts about him, his opinion carries weight in tech circles) wouldn't you triple check everything and make sure it's ready to go so you don't blow your one big shot? in that situation people should be prepared and have a backup device ready with the app loaded to shove in his face instead so he could still mes around with it
Well, I'm basically agreeing with drusenko. Scoble's advice applies to people who want to pitch him, not necessarily to startups in general, and especially not early stage startups.
Check out www.work-bench.com/startups for a list of a bunch of companies selling true enterprise-class deals and doing a great job at it.