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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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Myths from the 4 Hour Work Week

Anyone who knows me, or has read more than a few posts on this blog, will know that I love Timothy Ferriss‘ book “The 4 Hour Work Week“. The strategies are awesome, and t

By Casey Ellis · 31 Mar 2010
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What Makes a Good product?

For my money, a good business idea needs the following: 1. A problem (a.k.a. a need) 2. For that problem to be common enough to create a market (i.e. there’s no point

By Casey Ellis · 29 Mar 2010
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The work/job/life Balance – an Idea on Enforcing Boundaries

One of the challenges us “part-time” entrepreneurs face is the creep of our “5 to 9″ (i.e. the side-projects) into our “9 to 5″ (our employment). We are duty bound to our

By Casey Ellis · 22 Mar 2010
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Outsourcing — When to Remove Yourself from Your Own Life

This is an interesting way of looking at it… I’ll use hypothetical numbers for the illustration. This post is aimed at those thinking in terms of work or business, but

By Casey Ellis · 20 Mar 2010
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Have Idea — Will Work for Equity

I’ve been meeting up with some very cool people of late. One person in particular got me to thinking about the idea of venture capital and equity sharing. I find myself

By Casey Ellis · 17 Mar 2010
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Start something. today.

My dad has a saying that I love: “You can’t steer a parked car” You sort of can… turning the wheel is a bit harder… But I digress – the point of the saying is tha

By Casey Ellis · 17 Mar 2010
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Juggling Dual Roles

This is one of my favourite blogs… This post talks about some of the things one needs to consider when working a part-time “on the side” (or a “5 to 9″ as I like to call

By Casey Ellis · 16 Mar 2010
Building

Have idea. Will Work for equity.

I’ve been meeting up with some very cool people of late. One person in particular got me to thinking about the idea of venture capital and equity sharing. I find myself

By Casey Ellis · 08 Mar 2010
Thinking

Life Is Learning

The single greatest personal skill in business is the ability to learn. The second greatest personal skill in business is to be able to adapt and apply that learning in

By Casey Ellis · 06 Mar 2010
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Outsourcing My Life — Week 1

I mentioned in this post about getting a concierge service, delivered through a flat fee, through my credit card provider. Here’s an update on some of the tasks I’ve put

By Casey Ellis · 25 Feb 2010
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Outsourcing — Thinking Outside the Box

I love the book “The 4-hour Work Week”. A mate of mine just posted in his blog about the beginnings of his adventures in outsourcing, using outsourced workers from the Ph

By Casey Ellis · 13 Feb 2010