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Hot Takes

Short-form takes — quick reactions and sharp one-liners.

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 the security of your bank accounts

By Casey Ellis · 22 Sep 2011
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 usually an expedition to go

By Casey Ellis · 12 Sep 2011
Building

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 of pain… Any time you go out to market offering work, asking

By Casey Ellis · 09 Aug 2011
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 1: Whilst activating a prepaid

By Casey Ellis · 21 Jul 2011

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 and spontaneously catchi

By Casey Ellis · 06 Jul 2011
Thinking

Unsubscribe Me

Here’s a fresh challenge for a lovely Wednesday afternoon… I don’t know about you, but I get sent a lot of marketing stuff via email. I’m not talking about spam, I’m ta

By Casey Ellis · 04 May 2011
Building

What Have You Planned Tomorrow to Bring Your Idea to life?

The worst possible thing you can do is nothing. If you think you’ve got an idea that you think can change the world, chances are it can. The one thing stopping it is

By Casey Ellis · 13 Apr 2011
leadership

integrity

Integrity will usually cost you something in the short term, but will always pay off in the long term. Business, relationships, life, everywhere.

By Casey Ellis · 02 Mar 2011
Building

Fyi — You Are Probably an Entrepreneur

Entrepreneur… It’s honestly one of my favorite words. There’s something so empowering and liberating about it – a label and a title that affords the wearer freedom and cr

By Casey Ellis · 06 Feb 2011
Policy

What Is Disposable Email and Why Do I Care

One of the complaints I hear ALL THE TIME goes something like this… Ugh, I have so much SPAM in my inbox… Even with filtering I still spend about half my time sortin

By Casey Ellis · 04 Feb 2011
Security

Credit Card Security — Silo Your Risk

This is how you need to think when it comes to credit card fraud: I am going to get pwned one day. What measures can I put in place to proactively minimize the damag

By Casey Ellis · 02 Feb 2011