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Bugcrowd's First Principles

About 12 months after Bugcrowd started, one of our team pulled me aside and made a suggestion that truly altered the course of the company: Bugcrowd

31 Dec 2015 · 3 min read
Security

3 years, 20,000 Security Researchers & 200 Clients later...

2012 was the year that almost every industry, banking, education, government, big tech and even security, was hacked. Many, if not all of these companies were

08 Oct 2015 · 3 min read
leadership

Becoming CEO

The goal of a founder is to do everything. The goal of a CEO is to do nothing.

30 Sep 2015 · 1 min read
Building

On Cogs and Levers (strength in diversity)

A dear friend of mine was a linesman with a national telco for 17 years. He drove all around Australia pulling copper. He’s got some

16 Mar 2015 · 1 min read
Building

8,000 Miles + 1 Wife + 2 Kids + 1 Startup = ???

I remember when I first landed in Silicon Valley in April of 2013. Bugcrowd was 3 months old, and we’d seen enough early traction with

15 Mar 2015 · 3 min read
Thinking

Humility (n)

I know am strong, and also know where I’m weak makes me even stronger.

19 Feb 2015 · 1 min read
Building

Sales and Marketing — the good, the bad, and the Ugly

The good: * Introducing someone to something that genuinely serves a need that they have (marketing) and having them accept it on terms that are agreeable to

18 Feb 2015 · 1 min read
vulnerability-disclosure

disclose.io — Driving safety, simplicity, and standardization in vulnerability disclosure.

disclose.io is a collaborative and vendor-agnostic project to standardize best practices around safe harbour for good-faith security research. The project expands on the

22 Jul 2014 · 1 min read
Building

Some Thoughts from pushstart’s Mentor Connect

Kim Heras and the Pushstart crew put on another Mentor Live event last night. Think speed dating for start-ups and mentors. I was privileged to

15 Dec 2012 · 3 min read
Hot Takes

iPhone 5 First Impressions

My wife and I were among the hordes who queued up for an iPhone 5 this morning. First impressions on iPhone 5: * Fast. Like really, really

20 Oct 2012 · 2 min read
Building

Your Idea Sucks

tl;dr: I love your idea. I want to hear about your idea. Please, do not interpret this post as me stifling your idea. But an

24 Sep 2012 · 2 min read
Hot Takes

iPhone 5 First Impressions

My wife and I were among the hordes who queued up for an iPhone 5 this morning. First impressions on iPhone 5: * Fast. Like really, really

20 Sep 2012 · 2 min read