Ronald Schmelzer
Millennials Don’t Want Enterprise IT to Party Like It’s 1999
There’s an invasion coming. In fact, it’s already under way, and you probably haven’t already realized that you’re about to be taken over. That’s right – Generation Y has entered the workforce (as anemic as it currently is), and is bound to become the dominant part of your enterprise within the next 10-15 years. What [...]
The Demise of the Enterprise IT Department: A Crisis Point
In ZapThink’s deep conversations with CIOs and other IT decision makers, we find that there’s broad agreement on the multitude of forces conspiring to change every aspect of the way the enterprise does IT. Yet at the same time, everybody’s in denial that these changes will happen to them. For us as outsiders, it certainly [...]
“SOA & Application Integration in Action” Virtual Conference
TechTarget’s fifth annual “SOA & Integration in Action Virtual Conference” is designed to help organizations succeed with their SOA and application-integration processes. This full-day virtual event on October 5 covers the tools, practices and important tradeoffs required for winning SOA projects. Gartner, Forrester and independent experts offer pragmatic SOA and integration strategies, analyses and insights [...]
ZapThink Startup Insights: Sell “Bottoms-up” instead of Top-Down
ZapThink Startup Insights Week of June 21, 2010 Funding Insights Interview: Neill Occhiogrosso- Highland Capital Partners For this issue, ZapThink spoke with Neill Occhiogrosso, Principal at Highland Capital Partners, a venture capital firm focused on building companies in the communications, consumer, digital media, healthcare and information technology markets. Highland Capital Partners has 77 portfolio companies, [...]
ZapThink Startup Insights: Few Opportunities for Startups in Cloud Infrastructure
ZapThink Startup Insights Week of June 15, 2010 Funding Insights Interview: Elon Bloms – LaunchCapital For this issue, ZapThink spoke with Elon Bloms, Managing Director of LaunchCapital LLC, a market-agnostic, early stage seed investment firm. The company doesn’t specifically focus on IT, but they do look at around 100 deals a year in the IT [...]
ZapThink Startup Insights: Take a Page from the Energy Utility Industry
ZapThink Startup Insights Week of June 8, 2010 Funding Insights Interview: Adam Berrey – General Catalyst and the Startup Blender Blog For this issue, ZapThink spoke with Adam Berrey, entrepeneur-in-residence at General Catalyst Partners, a venture capital and private equity firm with $1.4B under management, and also writes the Startup Blender Blog on topics of [...]
ZapThink Startup Insights: Derisking IT technology is not a way to achieve any goal
ZapThink Startup Insights Week of June 1, 2010 Funding Insights Interview: Woody Benson, Prism VentureWorks For this issue, ZapThink spoke with Woody Benson at Prism VentureWorks, a venture firm founded in 1996 with over $1.25 Billion under management. Woody has been in Venture Capital for over a decade, with the last 5 years in digital [...]
ZapThink Startup Insights: Find Strategies that Allow for Incremental Innovation
ZapThink Startup Insights Week of May 24, 2010 Funding Insights Interview: Richard Dale – Sigma Partners For this issue, ZapThink spoke with Richard Dale, Principal at Sigma Partners, a 25 yr old Venture firm with offices in Boston, Menlo Park, and San Ramon. The firm is an early-stage seed / Series A round investor with [...]
IT without the IT Department
Almost exactly a year ago, we wrote in a ZapFlash that the IT department would have to make significant changes to its structure and value proposition to prevent its inevitable demise as a core part of the enterprise. In our conversations with enterprise architects, and venture capital investors (as part of our new ZapThink Startup [...]
Announcing the ZapThink Startup Insights Newsletter
Announcing the ZapThink Startup Insights Newsletter ZapThink Startup Insights is a newsletter focused on three main audiences looking for insight into startup and innovation trends in the enteprise IT landscape: Enterprise IT startups – Looking for the latest information on what’s happening in the funding landscape or new companies to partner with or sell to? [...]
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