Thought Leaders in Cyber Security: Craig Hinkley, CEO of WhiteHat Security (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: Where do you position your product? What size or scale of websites or apps are you looking to protect? Craig Hinkley: I think about it from the software development lifecycles perspective. You can think about developing your software to production where it’s now accessible to customers and partners. We have some customers who

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Bootstrapping a Billion Dollar Unicorn in Online Real Estate: Auction.com CEO Jeff Frieden (Part 1)

If you haven’t already, please study our free Bootstrapping course and the Investor Introductions page. Jeff Frieden bootstrapped Auction.com to about $180 million in revenue and profitability. Thereafter, he raised private equity financing and growth capital and is currently running a private company that is more than qualified to be a public Unicorn. The company

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From Second Silicon-Valley Gold Rush to Angel-Investment Bubble, These Are the Tech Trends to Watch

The technology industry is the most exciting phenomenon in America today, other than, perhaps, the prospect of energy independence. The latter, however, doesn’t get the same kind of glamorous coverage from the media that our personalities get. In particular, technology entrepreneurs have led us into an age of nerd-celebrities that dominate the psyche of the

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Bootstrapping a Highly Profitable Company in Social Media Marketing: Brand Networks CEO Jamie Tedford (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: What emerged as the positioning of Brand Networks? I understand you’re helping with word-of-mouth brand networks. What was the service that they were buying? Jamie Tedford: In the early days, they were buying more of traditional marketing services agency roles. Eventually as I brought on my partner and CTO Mike Garsin, we determined

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Thought Leaders in Cyber Security: Craig Hinkley, CEO of WhiteHat Security (Part 2)

Sramana Mitra: You said you have 30,000 websites and apps that your solutions protect in the process of developing these websites and applications. When you look at the universe out there of millions and millions of websites and applications, what percentage of them are actually vulnerable? Craig Hinkley: What we found is that pretty much

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Bootstrapping a Highly Profitable Company in Social Media Marketing: Brand Networks CEO Jamie Tedford (Part 2)

Sramana Mitra: What year did that chapter end for you? Jamie Tedford: Around 2002.  I got to work with an ad agency called Arnold Worldwide. I worked with a lot of really big brands. The brand that really got me excited was Volkswagen. I learned a lot of about traditional advertising at that time. I

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How to Manage A Successful Pivot: Bullhorn CEO Art Papas (Part 7)

Sramana Mitra: The IPO window will be fine even if the market corrects itself. Most of the problem with the market right now is with the late-stage venture capital as it pertains to private businesses. I don’t think there’s a lot of problem with the public market. Art Papas: I’d like to be a little

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Man and Superman

I have recently discovered a source of immense pleasure: National Theater Live. Every few weeks, we get to see a world class play, live streamed from London’s National Theater, right here, at the Menlo Park Guild. On June 7, we got to see Bernard Shaw’s Man and Superman with Ralph Fiennes as Jack Tanner. It

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