Week 6 is going to be a short one for the Big50-2017. We’re featuring only 2 startups, one cloud security automation startup today and an outsourcing startup tomorrow, and then the Big50 and the Startup50 team will be off for the rest of Thanksgiving week, returning with Cloud Week on Monday 11/27.
Our first startup’s profile in Week 6 will post in a few minutes. We start with another security automation company, and we finish our short week with an IT outsourcing company that can help you manage the adoption of various automation tools.
How these startups made it into the Big50-2017
To recap, the Big50-2017 competition started with more than 160 startups.
Through three rounds of challenges, the Startup50 team whittled that down to the 55 startups we are featuring in the Big50-2017. (Yes, there are 55 startups in the Big50. Yes, we’re as bad as college football conferences. Noted.)
The first obstacle Big50 startups had to pass was the fundamentals test. Have they raised sufficient funding, attracted a solid team, developed a viable business idea that tackles a real-world problem? Do they have on-the-record customers, are they targeting a viable market niche, and have they launched an MVP that’s moved the needle?
Next, if the fundamentals were in order, startups had to fight their way through the Online Voting and Social Media challenge.
Those still standing, then had to face the Content Challenge. Startups pitched the Startup50 team their best story ideas for a forthcoming podcast.
The 55 startups featured in the Big50-2017 startups excelled in each of those three challenges.
Come back in fifteen minutes or so, and you’ll see another “Automation at the Core” startup, one that uses automation to help secure hybrid cloud environments. Stay tuned. . .
