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2019年3月5日

Salesforce is backing Australian startups with $50 million fund

US tech giant Salesforce has pledged to invest $50 million into Australian startups. Salesforce Ventures, which has also backed companies like Evernote, Stripe, and Dropbox.

Almost half of all Australian startups are currently trying to raise capital, according to Startup Muster, which aims to provide an annual snapshot of the Australian startup ecosystem. Initiatives such as Salesforce Ventures’ new $50 million Australian Trailblazer Fund provide the valuable support and investment needed for startups to scale, employ Australians, and see their great ideas become great businesses.

Chronicle announced a cybersecurity product called Backstory

Chronicle – a subsidiary of Google parent company Alphabet – announced Backstory, a cybersecurity product designed to help companies figure out how to protect themselves from hackers. Splunk, a publicly-traded company that makes a similar product to Backstory, saw its shares dip as low as 7.7% following the announcement, and ultimately closed about 5% down from its opening price.

'By offering a global platform with the ability to apply massive computational capacity to an ever-growing set of enterprise security data, our goal is for Chronicle to help enterprise customers, as well as other vendors, to better protect what matters most.'

Things successful people do in the first 3 months at a new job

When it comes to your first few months in a new workplace, it’s important to set goals, prove the worth you sold in your interviews, and make social ties outside of your own team.

- Even if you’re not sure how exactly to complete the task or what its benefit to you might be, if you’re offered with an exciting opportunity, go ahead and say “yes.” - Say ‘Yes, absolutely’ 

- to have goals that you can use to measure your success.

- you should reflect regularly on whether you’re actually achieving what you promised to do in the outset of your job

- saying something like this to your boss: “We have a huge opportunity to fix something that has gone wrong. Here are a few ideas. I’d love your input.”

- People are willing to share what they learned being in that field. So don’t be afraid to go leverage that network, just to even learn.

- Start with keeping a log of how you spend your time. Then, see what tasks you spend time on that you don’t really adore.