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DARPA looks to make microbial food from electricity, air & water to ease cargo logistics

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Instead of having to transport large amounts of perishable food for military consumption and humanitarian relief, DARPA is looking to...

Technology

The bioeconomy will ‘program cells like computers’ to ‘feed, fuel, and heal society’

Tim Hinchliffe3 years ago

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By programming cells like computers, the bioeconomy will affect nearly every industry from food production to speedy vaccine trials and...

Technology

Slime molds are designing airplane, subway structures that are alive

Tim Hinchliffe7 years ago

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Globules of living slime molds are implemented to redesign Airbus's newest partitions for airplanes with an organic intelligence more efficient than...

Science

Scientists genetically engineer a cell that can shoot frickin’ laser beams

Piers Dillon Scott11 years ago

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US scientists who were just "really curious" have genetically engineered the world’s first organism that can shoot laser beams.

Business

Creative crowdsourcing affiliate programme launched by the blur Group

Piers Dillon Scott11 years ago

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The blur Group, the company whose professional creative crowdsourcing programme has caused a stir in the British and international designer and corporate communities has announced the launch of their affiliate programme.

Business

blur Group, tracking crowdsourced projects in realtime

Piers Dillon Scott12 years ago

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blur group, the world's leading crowdsourcing organisation, has launched the first realtime web-app to track crowdsourced creative projects.

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One week before the pandemic hit, unaware of what was about to take place worldwide, Taylor Hersom quit his job as a Chief Information Security Officer for a local firm in Austin, Texas in the hopes of finding a similar position elsewhere.

Between working at Deloitte where he advised Fortune 500 companies on compliance and security tactics, and his more recent position at the local firm, Hersom didn’t anticipate finding a new job to be a difficult feat.

However, as the pandemic set in, his interview offers dried up, and he turned to UpWork in pursuit of a job. In the beginning, he applied for as many posts as he could find in order to build up his review score.

He began taking on clients and quickly realized that startups needed a lot of help with security and compliance, and he knew this could become a genuine business for him. But what he didn’t realize was just how in demand his services would be.

As time went on, Hersom moved away from UpWork and took on staff to build a team in order to meet demand. Shortly after this, on January 1, 2021, his new company Eden Data was born.

In today’s episode of the Brains Byte Back podcast, Hersom, CEO and Founder of Eden Data, shares how the team has grown in such a short period of time by taking a positive approach to security instead of the traditional fear-based approach.

In other words, instead of securing customers using fears tactics such as telling prospects if they get hacked they will be fined, receive bad PR, or be hated, Hersom advocates that strong security can show prospects that you care about them and their data, which can successfully close more deals.

Hersom also shares how their subscription approach to security and compliance has helped them stand out in this market, allowing them to scale alongside the startups they work with.