I am extremely pleased to being able to announce that the SourceClear software (Oxygen Security Platform and the Security Life applications) will now be built at Microsoft and that I will be joining as a full-time employee heading up the ACE Services group in Europe and product managing the software. Many people often start these [...]
Let me start with a disclaimer to “Ron Obvious” that these posts are just from a Long Tail lens. I do understand that life is more complicated than one economic theory.
I am doing some interesting contract work at the moment reviewing a Security Development Lifecycle (SDL) for a global pharmaceutical company and reviewing a product for [...]
About 10 months ago I left a well paid job running Foundstone in the States, headed to my holiday house in France and decided to bootstrap a security software company. I wanted to create a company that I would be proud of and the sort of company I have always wanted to work for. I have learnt [...]
Kaufman eVenturing is a simple superb web site for any budding entrepreneur. It has all sorts of wonderful content from articles about valuations of pre-revenue companies to sample term sheets and advice on a wide variety of topics. Thoroughly recommended.
And dishes out lots of brilliant commentary and startup advice .
http://blog.pmarca.com/2007/06/why_theres_no_s.html
I was going to write “Now I have wasted an hour an a half reading all his stuff from pixel to pixel and I need to get back to work”…but it was far from wasted!
I have been having some interesting private discussions with friends over the last few days about the virtues of open source software development. I will say up front I have long been a skeptic.
Larry Augustin has been following the amount of VC money being invested in OS software companies. It shows an interesting story.
2004
$298MM
36 [...]
You don’t need fluffy marketing and spin when you solve real world problems. Brilliant! I know of many companies who need just this.
The Firewall Mixer from Matasano.
Solve real problems and not try and invent new ones. There is a new hope!
I spend a lot of time in listening mode. Some people may not think I am in listening mode as my mouth is usually always moving; but I am. I have a set of people I use as sounding boards. Some know it and others don’t. They are from a broad spectrum of geographies, backgrounds, companies, industries and career [...]
First off you will notice this is the Diary entry for May and not weeks six to ten. Weekly entries were simply becoming onerous. Secondly you will notice I am still late. Nothing changes!
Bootstrapping Was Yesterday - I Want to Move Faster!
It has been a frustrating month to say the least. If I look at the big [...]
An update to the ongoing story of SecurityLinkUp (last update here).
This application was designed to be a simple free application to manage face-to-face meetings for security folks around the world; community groups, product user groups etc. Having spoken to a number of potential user groups who have all been very positive we have gathered some [...]
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