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Customer Trust Is An Opportunity With A Huge Payback

Startup Professionals Musings

My recommendation to entrepreneurs is to recognize these concerns as an opportunity to make people’s life better, rather than worry and dodge the risk. I know companies who collect sensitive data from consumers all the time, and still seem to keep a trusted image (Amazon.com, Ebay).

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Here’s A Painful Problem For Aspiring Entrepreneurs

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My plea to entrepreneurs is to recognize these concerns as an opportunity, to make people’s life better, rather than stoke the fires. I know companies who collect sensitive data from consumers all the time, and still seem to keep a squeaky clean image (Amazon.com, Ebay). Why is everyone so paranoid these days?

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How Sekur.me Wants To Use Cell Phones To Fix Abandoned Shopping Carts

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We spoke with CEO and founder Jack Bicer --just back from DEMO--to learn more about the app and why he thinks the company has the solution to e-commerce shopping cart abandonment. So this is for e-commerce sites, not in person purchases? Jack Bicer: Any e-commerce site can be enabled for Sekur.me. What''s next for your startup?

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Security And Privacy Are Both A Risk and Opportunity

Startup Professionals Musings

My recommendation to entrepreneurs is to recognize these concerns as an opportunity to make people’s life better, rather than worry and dodge the risk. I know companies who collect sensitive data from consumers all the time, and still seem to keep a squeaky clean image (Amazon.com, Ebay). and this black eye won’t soon go away.

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Interview with Frank Sinton, Mefeedia

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We recently ran into Frank Sinton, founder of Burbank-based Mefeedia (www.mefeedia.com), a popular online video search web site. Although Mefeedia plays in the very crowded, online video space, the site seems to be very popular with end users, so we thought we'd chat with Frank a bit about the company. What's your background?

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Interview with Steve Jillings, TeleSign

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Steve Jillings has a long track record of running successful startups in Southern California, ranging from such companies as FrontBridge Technologies (sold to Microsoft in 2005 for over $200M) and Vantage Media (acquired in 2007). Telesign provides authentication services for the largest web companies in the world.