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Child Entrepreneur Caleb Sima: Cofounder Of SPI Dynamics (Part 6)
SM: How did you approach the financing phase of your business? Was there an angel community in Atlanta that you were able to plug into? CS: Atlanta is not known for its angel investment scene. We knew a gentleman who had sold his company in the 1990s and made a lot of money. He believed
Child Entrepreneur Caleb Sima: Cofounder Of SPI Dynamics (Part 5)
SM: What was the genesis of creating that product? Was it your work on the pentest contracts? CS: The head of Bell South told me that if I could automate my Web assessments techniques and provide a product that he could run in-house, he would purchase it from me.
Child Entrepreneur Caleb Sima: Cofounder Of SPI Dynamics (Part 4)
SM: Your first real job, as a teenager, involved securing online banking products? CS: That was when I got involved with real security work. I started going through security techniques and examining exploits. At the time, there was a very small company called ISS that was also based out of Atlanta. They found me and
Child Entrepreneur Caleb Sima: Cofounder Of SPI Dynamics (Part 3)
SM: By 1994 the Internet was getting started. CS: Yes, folks like AOL were big at that time. I was still reading on DBS, and I was hooking up with local groups. CompuServe opened up a whole new world by allowing us to publish text files and learned knowledge by posting into newsgroups that were
Child Entrepreneur Caleb Sima: Cofounder Of SPI Dynamics (Part 2)
SM: In the end, your parents did you a favor by taking away the television and forcing you into something more productive. CS: My father took a particularly interesting approach to my activities. He helped me to make my first fake ID. I wanted to make a fake ID, and I downloaded all the items
Child Entrepreneur Caleb Sima: Cofounder Of SPI Dynamics (Part 1)
Prior to taking the helm of Armorize, Caleb Sima was co-founder and CTO to SPI Dynamics, the world’s leading and de facto standard for Web application security scanning. After being acquired by HP, Caleb was made HP’s Chief Technologist – Application Security Center, where he helped HP build a SaaS version of HP’s application security
From Steve Jobs’s Soulmate To Founder Of Fotopedia: Jean-Marie Hullot (Part 7)
SM: What is Fotopedia’s business model? JH: The first step is to build significant traffic. We are not there at this point. We have been operating for one year, and we have learned how to get the community contributing content. Until recently, we did not spend enough energy on learning how to allow people to
From Steve Jobs’s Soulmate To Founder Of Fotopedia: Jean-Marie Hullot (Part 6)
SM: Did you spend very much time learning how Flickr operated? JH: I never spent very much time focusing on one specific project except when I was younger and I was programming. I had a lot of questions in my mind, and I am not a very organized person, so I spent time sorting things