01. Jonathan Lehr, Work-Bench, Visits #theCUBE!. (00:18)
02. Tell Us About Work-Bench And Your Background. (00:35)
03. How Was Your Stack Transforming. (01:16)
04. What Were Some Of The Use Cases That Put The Big Banks Pilots Of Hadoop. (02:09)
05. What Kind Of Start Ups Are Coming Out Of New York. (03:56)
06. Did You Invest In vArmour And Tamer. (06:02)
07. What's The Funding Climate Like. (07:18)
08. What Do You See Growing Up In The Ecosystem. (08:18)
09. Is The DevOps Culture Emerging In A New Way. (09:47)
10. Talk About Developer Leverage And The Importance Of Developers. (11:40)
11. What Do You Make Of Facebook And What's Going On Inside. (12:52)
12. Has Any Start Up Actually Hit Scale Without A Sales Force. (14:06)
13. What Is Your Relationship With Infor. (16:23)
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New York state of mind: Redesigning the startup Big Apple style| #Inforum16
by R. Danes | Jul 11, 2016
The current wisdom conferred to startups by IT gurus is: If you want to be successful, don’t try to read customers’ minds; get your product to market and lap up every ounce of feedback to make version 2.0 better, faster, stronger. The “land-and-expand” model is undoubtedly a winning strategy for most Silicon Valley startups. But head east to New York City, and you’ll find startups taking a different approach — and securing big enterprise customers to boot.
Jonathan Lehr, managing director of Work-bench Ventures, an enterprise technology VC fund in New York, said the startups it funds focus on very specific problems out of the gate. “It’s really about starting with the use case, which is a very New York-centric point of view,” he told Dave Vellante (@dvellante) and George Gilbert (@ggilbert41), cohosts of theCUBE, from the SiliconANGLE Media team.
It’s who you know
Lehr said that Work-bench’s deep corporate network informs its decisions about what to pursue. He said his own background at Morgan Stanley gives him perspective on what enterprises want from new technology.
He said that banks “tend to be the earliest adopters of new tech due to competitive pressures and whatnot.” He added that banks and other enterprises have very specific pain points they’re trying to solve, and delivering a tailored solution can increase a startup’s chances of being adopted.
Use case in point
He noted that banks are realizing that the world is moving to cloud, and despite their anxieties about security, they are going to have to find ways to make it work. He said that vArmour Networks, Inc., a company Work-bench invested in, is making great strides addressing those very concerns by providing cloud infrastructure security to banks and other enterprises.
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Jonathan Lehr, Work-Bench | Inforum 2016
01. Jonathan Lehr, Work-Bench, Visits #theCUBE!. (00:18)
02. Tell Us About Work-Bench And Your Background. (00:35)
03. How Was Your Stack Transforming. (01:16)
04. What Were Some Of The Use Cases That Put The Big Banks Pilots Of Hadoop. (02:09)
05. What Kind Of Start Ups Are Coming Out Of New York. (03:56)
06. Did You Invest In vArmour And Tamer. (06:02)
07. What's The Funding Climate Like. (07:18)
08. What Do You See Growing Up In The Ecosystem. (08:18)
09. Is The DevOps Culture Emerging In A New Way. (09:47)
10. Talk About Developer Leverage And The Importance Of Developers. (11:40)
11. What Do You Make Of Facebook And What's Going On Inside. (12:52)
12. Has Any Start Up Actually Hit Scale Without A Sales Force. (14:06)
13. What Is Your Relationship With Infor. (16:23)
Track List created with http://www.vinjavideo.com.
--- ---
New York state of mind: Redesigning the startup Big Apple style| #Inforum16
by R. Danes | Jul 11, 2016
The current wisdom conferred to startups by IT gurus is: If you want to be successful, don’t try to read customers’ minds; get your product to market and lap up every ounce of feedback to make version 2.0 better, faster, stronger. The “land-and-expand” model is undoubtedly a winning strategy for most Silicon Valley startups. But head east to New York City, and you’ll find startups taking a different approach — and securing big enterprise customers to boot.
Jonathan Lehr, managing director of Work-bench Ventures, an enterprise technology VC fund in New York, said the startups it funds focus on very specific problems out of the gate. “It’s really about starting with the use case, which is a very New York-centric point of view,” he told Dave Vellante (@dvellante) and George Gilbert (@ggilbert41), cohosts of theCUBE, from the SiliconANGLE Media team.
It’s who you know
Lehr said that Work-bench’s deep corporate network informs its decisions about what to pursue. He said his own background at Morgan Stanley gives him perspective on what enterprises want from new technology.
He said that banks “tend to be the earliest adopters of new tech due to competitive pressures and whatnot.” He added that banks and other enterprises have very specific pain points they’re trying to solve, and delivering a tailored solution can increase a startup’s chances of being adopted.
Use case in point
He noted that banks are realizing that the world is moving to cloud, and despite their anxieties about security, they are going to have to find ways to make it work. He said that vArmour Networks, Inc., a company Work-bench invested in, is making great strides addressing those very concerns by providing cloud infrastructure security to banks and other enterprises.
