Leadership, Innovation, and Startup Success – Startup Security Weekly #57
Paul and Michael talk about being a leader in the startup world. How to fund your business? They also enforce how important it is to take a sabbatical.
Article Discussion on Leadership, Innovation, and Startup Success
- How to Fund Your Business – Even If You’re Broke and Have Zero Experience ==>
- Why Startup Founders Need to Take a Sabbatical ==>
- B2B buying is strategic. Selling is tactical. ==>
- Small Biz Owners Almost Always Fail With Their Marketing Because of These 3 Things ==>
- VCs ready to help play job market matchmaker ==> What would this look like in security?
Startup & Security News You Need to Know
Global IPO market on pace for best year since 2007
- https://www.geekwire.com/2017/global-ipo-market-pace-best-year-since-2007-washington-companies-expected-go-public/
- Sharing this because everyone has an opinion; go build something awesome and make a difference
SAP acquired Gigya for $350M (reported)
- https://techcrunch.com/2017/09/24/sap-is-buying-identity-management-firm-gigya-for-350m/
- https://www.owler.com/iaApp/100017/gigya-company-profile
- “Gigya is a customer identity management platform that offers businesses with registration, social login, identity and access management solutions.”
- Over $100M in funding since 2006, last big round was 2014
Google acquired Bitium for UNDISCLOSED
- https://venturebeat.com/2017/09/26/google-acquires-bitium-to-boost-its-cloud-identity-management-capabilities/
- https://www.owler.com/iaApp/490660/bitium-company-profile
- “Bitium is a provider of cloud-based identity and access management solutions including single sign-on, password management and analytics for businesses.”
- Raised about $15M over 4 rounds in the last 4-5 years
- https://www.bitium.com
OnFido raised $30M Series C
- https://venturebeat.com/2017/09/27/microsoft-joins-30-million-investment-in-london-based-identity-verification-startup-onfido/
- https://www.owler.com/iaApp/202039/onfido-company-profile
- Onfido is a provider of background checking and identity verification solutions for businesses.
- over $60M in funding since 2013 – including an equity and unattributed round
- https://onfido.com
Vimeo acquired Livestream – UNDISCLOSED
- https://techcrunch.com/2017/09/26/vimeo-acquires-livestream-launches-its-own-live-video-product/
- https://www.owler.com/iaApp/103436/vimeo-company-profile
- https://www.owler.com/iaApp/100083/livestream-company-profile
CA Technologies acquired Runscope – Undisclosed
- https://www.owler.com/iaApp/156313/runscope-company-profile
- Runscope provides API testing, real-time traffic monitoring, logging and debugging solutions for application developers.
- Consider how this fits with the Veracode acquisition
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