Catching Up On Readings: Black Hat USA

This feature from SecurityIntelligence covers the key security takeaways from the 2019 edition of Black Hat USA held in Las Vegas recently. For this week’s posts, click on the paragraph links.

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Thought Leaders in Online Education: Niall McKinney, President of Avado (Part 4)

Sramana Mitra: On the language learning front, I have been learning two languages in parallel. I did personal tutors. Then I did online learning. I’ve watched a ton of films. I’m learning French and Spanish. I’ve done apps. I watch a tremendous number of French films. I’m married to a French-speaking man. It’s all very

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Candid Discussion of a Bootstrapper’s Journey Through Failures to Success: Robly CEO Adam Robinson (Part 7)

Sramana Mitra: You’re obviously list-building for email marketing on behalf of these aggressive marketeers. Does this mean that this list can also be used to market through MailChimp or Eloqua? Adam Robinson: This is my vision right now. What we’re doing right now is, we’re updating all of our marketing pages to communicate this message

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Thought Leaders in Online Education: Niall McKinney, President of Avado (Part 3)

Niall McKinney: The higher level of that is, they get specific group assignments. In Google Squared Online, at the end of three of the modules, they will be assigned a group. We give them a group work. For example, it might be a brand which is not very digital. They might have to come up

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Candid Discussion of a Bootstrapper’s Journey Through Failures to Success: Robly CEO Adam Robinson (Part 6)

Sramana Mitra: You got this $3 million cash cow. You had other people running it. You didn’t have to spend time on it and it gave you cash with which you could do other things. Adam Robinson: Yes, that’s great to have but it’s not that exciting. I had been building this lead.com product. I

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Thought Leaders in Online Education: Niall McKinney, President of Avado (Part 2)

Niall McKinney: If you think about how we learn at school or college, we don’t expect children to learn on their own at their own pace. We send them to school. We send people to college to learn with other people. There is a social normative effect that you want to keep up. You want

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Best of Bootstrapping: Co-founders Bootstrap Linguamatics to Over $10M from the UK

Cambridge, England is a great place for high-end technical talent. This story traces the journey of a group of such talented people with core expertise in Natural Language Processing, including Co-founder Roger Hale, and how they turned their expertise into a robust, profitable business. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start at the very beginning of your personal

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Candid Discussion of a Bootstrapper’s Journey Through Failures to Success: Robly CEO Adam Robinson (Part 5)

Sramana Mitra: What was your analysis of the gap in MailChimp’s story where you could actually come in and do something? Adam Robinson: What I had observed over the years is that people had success doing very narrow things. I’m sure you’ve heard of this guy Nathan Barry at ConvertKit. He has the perfect tool

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