Mark Campbell, EVOTEK Labs CIO and Paul Ferraro sit down with Saqib Awan, Partner at Lightspeed Ventures to discuss the state of Enterprise IT!

Here are a few of the questions/topics we discussed.

• Was your time at the newspaper foundational to your career overall?
• How important is the culture of the companies you invest in and how do you effectively review it? 
• You spend a lot of time mentoring and helping entrepreneurs, CIOs, and sales exec’s – what do you take away and share from these experiences and what’s your favorite part of these interactions?
• In the first part of this year there was a lot of “Dry Powder” in the VC community. Can you explain what that means and is this still the case?
• What changes have you seen in the types of companies you invested in this time last year and today?
• How can today’s IT executive avoid being left behind by adopting newer companies in their solution stack without taking undue risk?
• For those wanting to learn more about the VC community where would you point them?