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Best European Tech Conferences to Round Off Your 2015 with a Bang

George Chilton7 years ago

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2015 might be greying at the temples, but there’s life in the old girl yet. Startups, entrepreneurs and techies have...

Social Media

Twitter’s advice to marketers, “push while the door is open”

Piers Dillon Scott9 years ago

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Successful Twitter marketers need to prepare in advance and be spontaneous, according to Twitter Dublin's Managing Director

Business

A survivor’s guide to the Web Summit

Piers Dillon Scott9 years ago

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With so many speakers and attendees the Web Summit can be overwhelming. Here's our advice for getting the most from this and any other conference.

Technology

Pub Summit series expands to 100 cities worldwide in 2013

Darren McCarra10 years ago

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The organisers of the acclaimed Web Summit series have announced big and ambitious plans to expand their Pub Summit series to 100 cities across 40 countries and five continents in 2013.

Web

Dublin’s Web Summit team has “taken over” The Europas, Europe’s tech startup awards

Darren McCarra10 years ago

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The Web Summit team has "taken over" The Europas, Europe's tech startup awards, and will host an event this coming January in Berlin.

Social Media

Is Hootsuite setting up offices in Dublin? Maybe

Piers Dillon Scott10 years ago

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Hootsuite's founder Ryan Holmes said at the annual F.ounders launch that the company will be setting up offices in Ireland, but was it an off the cuff remark rather than an official announcement?

Digg founder Kevin Rose will be speaking at this year's Dublin Web Summit

Technology

Kevin Rose and 4chan’s Chris Poole join Dublin Web Summit lineup

Darren McCarra10 years ago

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Well-known serial internet entrepreneur Kevin Rose and 4chan founder Chris Poole have both joined this October's Dublin Web Summit lineup.

Brains Byte Back

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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.