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Here’s A Painful Problem For Aspiring Entrepreneurs

Startup Professionals Musings

My plea to entrepreneurs is to recognize these concerns as an opportunity, to make people’s life better, rather than stoke the fires. There are others, like LifeLock , recently acquired by Symantec for $2.3 Why is everyone so paranoid these days?

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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. There are others, like Norton LifeLock , acquired in 2017 by Symantec for $2.3 billion, now providing identity theft services for nearly 80 million users around the globe.

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

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The uninstall was an interesting story--I was working on Norton Desktop at Symantec, and I was in charge of the installation process. I have yet to receive a thank you from Symantec or Microsoft for uninstall, which is now in the public domain. jack bicer interview startup entrepreneur sekurme secure factor authentication ecommerce'

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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. There are others, like LifeLock , acquired in 2017 by Symantec for $2.3 billion, now providing identity theft services for nearly 5 million consumers in all 50 states.

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Interview with Frank Sinton, Mefeedia

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Frank's father was the founder of Think Technologies, which created Think Pascal and Think C, and was bought for a significant sum by Symantec in the 80's; Frank is following in his father's footsteps in running a startup. Frank Sinton: I come from a long line of entrepreneurs, and it's always been in my blood. What's your background?

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You Won’t Find Startup Funding From These Sources

Startup Professionals Musings

Some aspiring entrepreneurs are so desperate for funding, or naïve, that they ignore the obvious signs of scams and rip-offs on the Internet, praying for a windfall. Every computer these days needs a current reputable security product from Symantec, McAfee, or Trend Micro. Viruses and spyware. Marty Zwilling.

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Interview with Steve Jillings, TeleSign

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I was sitting on the board at LiveOffice, which was funded by Summit Partnres, and was just sold to Symantec two weeks ago. I was actually introduced to the Telesign founders through Summit Partners. One of the partners, Greg Goldfarb, was really excited about Telesign.