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Battle of the tech startups: Pioneers Festival Vienna 2016

Tim Hinchliffe7 years ago

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This year's Pioneers Festival takes place in Vienna on the last week of May with over 2,500 attendees from all over...

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Wikipedia community has spoken, global anti-SOPA blackout protest begins Wednesday

Darren McCarra11 years ago

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The Wikipedia community has spoken. A 24-hour anti-SOPA blackout protest will begin on Wednesday, January 18 at 5pm Western European Time (WET). During this 24-hour period, English language Wikipedia articles will be unavailable globally - a unprecedented move never before seen in the crowd-sourced encyclopedia's 11-year history.

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White House criticizes SOPA/PIPA – calls for “sound legislation” against foreign content piracy

Piers Dillon Scott11 years ago

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The White House has stepped into the SOPA/PIPA debates: broadly criticising the acts, the entertainment industry and Silicon Valley.

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Cheezburger CEO: I can has Wikipedia support in SOPA blackout protest?

Darren McCarra11 years ago

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Ben Huh, best known as CEO of Cheezburger, has publicly called for Wikipedia to join Cheezburger and Reddit in their 12-hour SOPA blackout protest next Wednesday.

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Wikipedia will survive for another year, reaches $20 million fundraising target

Darren McCarra11 years ago

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Wikimedia Foundation, the non-profit organisation behind Wikipedia, the world's largest encyclopedia, has managed to reach its fundraising target of $20 million, ensuring the survival of the collaborative knowledge source through 2012.

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GoDaddy “no longer supports sopa” after Cheezburger, Wikipedia, & others threaten boycott

Piers Dillon Scott11 years ago

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GoDaddy has dramatically reversed its support for The Stop Online Piracy Act after Wikipedia, Cheezburger, and Reddit, Twitter users threaten boycott.

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News in brief – Jack Dorsey’s Square and Jimmy Wales’ Wikipedia

Piers Dillon Scott12 years ago

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Your news from across the web with The Sociable. Jack Dorsey’s Square Despite eager anticipation from Irish users Jack Dorsey’s smartphone credit card scanner, Square, has no plans to launch in Ireland…just yet

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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.