leadership
What's your 20/20?
“You can achieve less than you think in a year and more than you think in a decade.”
entrepreneurship
cybersecurity
Upcoming talks
Here’s some of the talks and events I’ll be at over the next few months: Billington 10th Annual Cybersecurity Summit September 4-5 2019 Washington DC Hacker Halted (Keynote) October 10-11 2019 Georgia, Atlanta
business-strategy
Firing your clients
This concept is pushed pretty hard in Tim Ferriss’ book the 4-Hour Work Week as well… In a nutshell – you don’t want EVERYONE to be your client. You only want the GOOD clients. There’s no point having a great margin, smooth processes, and efficiency and profitability baked into
mindset
Bricks and Pyramids
QOTD: You have to build the bricks before you can build the Pyramids.
bugcrowd
Happy 6th Birthday @bugcrowd
6 years ago today I got off a plane armed with a bunch of notes. I’d spent a week meeting with pen-testing customers in Melbourne, and I’d been talking to them about bug bounty programs. These conversations and a set of ideas I’d been noodling on for
leadership
On insight, responsibility, and ownership
Recognizing a problem qualifies you to be a part of the solution. Refusing to be a part of the solution disqualifies you from complaining about the problem.
leadership
Living intentionally
Happy New Year! Pretty much everyone I’ve spoken agrees on the same thing: 2017 was a turbulent, change-filled year packed with as many high-highs as it had low-lows… but it’s over now, we’ve turned the clock back to zero, and the 2018 has nothing but potential, impact,
cybersecurity
My cybersecurity predictions for 2017
If 2016 did anything for cybersecurity, it was to prove that truth can end up wayyyyyyy stranger than fiction (where fiction, of course, are end of year prediction pieces). I have plenty of opinions of where I think it’ll get weird next year, but instead I think Mike Mimoso’
business-strategy
How to disrupt a sleepy incumbent
When building a product or company that’s designed to disrupt a sleepy incumbent there are four phases of typical interaction you’ll have with your future competition.
leadership
The three levels of input
A great tip one of our board members gave me a while back was that, as leadership and influence grow, it becomes increasingly important to make sure your team knows the type of input you’re giving them.
mindset
People are awesome...
…and I’m not just talking about those kick-ass Youtube videos that pop up each year. I have a core belief that people are intrinsically valuable. Sometimes the manifestation of that value — their extrinsic value — speaks to the intrinsic, sometimes it doesn’t. That’s irrelevant… the intrinsic value is
entrepreneurship
What a day! (Bugcrowd Series B)
So, Bugcrowd announced some pretty big news today… We closed our Series B financing of $15M, announced some amazing new partners in Salesforce and Industry Ventures. Here’s what it looked like on the inside… For those who haven’t done this before, it’s the CEO’s job to