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Casey Ellis

Casey Ellis

Hacker, founder, advisor, and pioneer of crowdsourced security. Founder of Bugcrowd, co-founder of disclose.io, principal of Tall Poppy Group. Board member at SRLDF.

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Mike Montiero – f*** you. Pay me.

Excuse the profanity, but this is really worth watching. [2011/03 Mike Monteiro F*** You. Pay Me.](http://vimeo.com/22053820) from San Francisco

14 Nov 2011 · 1 min read
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How to Kill a Startup — an Email I Should Have Sent 2 Years Ago

Sellerwise.net was my first real tech start-up. As a business it had a lot of potential – a genuine need in the market,

18 Oct 2011 · 2 min read
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Invention Is a flower, Innovation Is a Weed

“Here’s the difference between a visionary and an entrepreneur. Both have visions, which are a dime a dozen. But an entrepreneur has, in

17 Oct 2011 · 1 min read
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Definition of an Entrepreneur

entrepreneur (n): a person who’s prepared to work 16 hours a day for themselves to avoid working 8 hours a day for someone

12 Oct 2011 · 1 min read
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A Little Less Conversation – the Ascending Close

An interesting trend in Internet marketing is to deliberately under-inform prospects re what your product is about. You provide just enough info to

10 Oct 2011 · 1 min read
Security

The Market for Stolen Credit Card Data

This is a ridiculously awesome post from Dancho Danchev which dives into the mechanics of the sale, distribution and fraudulent processing of credit cards

04 Oct 2011 · 1 min read
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What Is the Tall Poppy Group

If I’m really honest I’d have to say that I don’t really know what the Tall Poppy Group is yet. I

25 Sep 2011 · 1 min read
dontgetpwned

Is a 3 Year Old All that's Between You and Getting pwned?

Here’s some food for thought… Would you trust a 3 year old: * …with access to your mortgage? * …to keep your house secure? * …with

22 Sep 2011 · 1 min read
Hot Takes

What Is a Board

The word “corporation” was originally a shipping term – A group of people would pool their resources to fund and form a corporation which was

12 Sep 2011 · 1 min read
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Outsourcing — Use a Nom De Plume

If you’re like me and have one identity that you use for everything here’s a tip that will save you a bunch

09 Aug 2011 · 1 min read
Policy

Privacy and Confidentiality — Yours or mine?

WARNING: Mild rant ahead. I’m writing this post to out a particular behavior that I am seeing more and more often lately. Example

21 Jul 2011 · 3 min read

Back in the Blogosphere

Another quick one… Since my last post a lot has happened! New members to the Bugcrowd team, new products being released, and Internet regularly

06 Jul 2011 · 1 min read