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Child Entrepreneur Caleb Sima: Cofounder Of SPI Dynamics (Part 5)

Posted on Friday, Aug 27th

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)

Posted on Thursday, Aug 26th

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

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Child Entrepreneur Caleb Sima: Cofounder Of SPI Dynamics (Part 3)

Posted on Wednesday, Aug 25th

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

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Child Entrepreneur Caleb Sima: Cofounder Of SPI Dynamics (Part 2)

Posted on Tuesday, Aug 24th

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

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Child Entrepreneur Caleb Sima: Cofounder Of SPI Dynamics (Part 1)

Posted on Monday, Aug 23rd

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

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From Steve Jobs’s Soulmate To Founder Of Fotopedia: Jean-Marie Hullot (Part 7)

Posted on Sunday, Aug 22nd

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

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From Steve Jobs’s Soulmate To Founder Of Fotopedia: Jean-Marie Hullot (Part 6)

Posted on Saturday, Aug 21st

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

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From Steve Jobs’s Soulmate To Founder Of Fotopedia: Jean-Marie Hullot (Part 5)

Posted on Friday, Aug 20th

SM: After NeXT was acquired by Apple, did you have any involvement at all with the company? JH: No. I traveled for some time, and while I was traveling I met Keith Teare at a conference in Bangkok. There were very few Internet cafés in Bangkok, and we ran into each other at one.