Thought Leaders in Cyber Security: Mark Lee, CEO of Splashtop (Part 4)

Sramana Mitra: Where do you have your telesales team? Mark Lee: The Inbound team for the US market is mostly in San Jose. We have a team in Taipei for the APAC market. For the European market, we have a team in Amsterdam. We also have a team in Tokyo and Singapore. Singapore is focused

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Thought Leaders in Cyber Security: Mark Lee, CEO of Splashtop (Part 3)

Mark Lee: We are seeing an expansion of the market opportunities because of COVID. Traditionally, most businesses have been using VPN and RDP. VPN gives too many privileges to the end-user from home. Once you are connected to VPN, there is a lot of potential lateral movement from your home devices which could be infected

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Thought Leaders in Cyber Security: Mark Lee, CEO of Splashtop (Part 2)

Sramana Mitra: Tell me a bit about the premise of Splashtop. What are you doing in Splashtop? Mark Lee: When we started in 2006, the company was called DeviceVM. We pivoted in 2011 to become Splashtop. We have been bootstrapping. All of the funding in the first four to five years into the prior business

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Thought Leaders in Cyber Security: Mark Lee, CEO of Splashtop (Part 1)

If you haven’t already, please study our free Bootstrapping course and the Investor Introductions page. Remote work has boosted some great trends. Read on for more on the cyber security front. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start by introducing our audience to yourself as well as Splashtop.

Thought Leaders in Cyber Security: Avanan CEO Gil Friedrich (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: What are the unsolved problems in the phishing and data protection domain? Where would you recommend new entrepreneurs to start new companies? Gil Friedrich: In our area, we see a gap that we try to solve. I can talk about the gap that we saw and then the other gaps that are still

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Thought Leaders in Cyber Security: Avanan CEO Gil Friedrich (Part 2)

Sramana Mitra: I want to go down one level. Let’s take the phishing use case. Give me a little primer on what the approach has been in dealing with phishing so far and tell me what is differentiated in your approach. What are the benefits of your approach over others? Gil Friedrich: That’s a great

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Thought Leaders in Cyber Security: Avanan CEO Gil Friedrich (Part 1)

If you haven’t already, please study our Bootstrapping Course and Investor Introductions page.  Gil takes us through the earlier approaches to issues like Phishing and his innovation. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start by introducing our audience to yourself as well as Avanan. 

Thought Leaders in Cyber Security: Cylynt CEO Ted Miracco (Part 5)

Sramana Mitra: Switching the line of questioning, is there a white space that you can point to? What can you talk about by way of opportunities? Ted Miracco: I think the whole security field has a tremendous amount of white space. The model of having logins, passwords, and credentials is a tremendous white space. There

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