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Leads360 Snags CTO From LiveOffice

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Los Angeles-based Leads360 , which develops sales automation software, said this morning that it has named Mark DuVall as its Chief Technology Officer. DuVall joins the company from LiveOffice, which was recently acquired by Symantec. Leads360 develops software which is used to help manage sales leads for companies.

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Customer Trust Is An Opportunity With A Huge Payback

Startup Professionals Musings

I continue to believe that most of the data gathering in the real world, and on the Internet, is done by businesses to help you find what you want, protect you, and improve your experience, rather than invade your privacy or scam you. There are others, like Norton LifeLock , acquired in 2017 by Symantec for $2.3

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Security And Privacy Are Both A Risk and Opportunity

Startup Professionals Musings

I continue to believe that most of the data gathering in the real world, and on the Internet, is done by businesses to help you find what you want, protect you, and improve your experience, rather than invade your privacy or scam you. There are others, like LifeLock , acquired in 2017 by Symantec for $2.3

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Interview with Steve Jillings, TeleSign

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What we do, is we help companies identify who is accessing their sites, and registering for their services. You found the team behind TeleSign, and have helped bring together a team to scale out the business. I was sitting on the board at LiveOffice, which was funded by Summit Partnres, and was just sold to Symantec two weeks ago.

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Here’s A Painful Problem For Aspiring Entrepreneurs

Startup Professionals Musings

I must be the only one who believes that most of the data gathering in the real world, and on the Internet, is done by businesses to help you find what you want, protect you, and improve your experience, rather than invade your privacy or scam you. There are others, like LifeLock , recently acquired by Symantec for $2.3

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This Week in VC with Dana Settle of Greycroft Partners

Both Sides of the Table

The “private sale” market phenomenon was started in France by Vente-Privee (literally means “private sale”) and was replicated in Germany by BrandsforFriends. Gilt Group is currently the largest private sale web site in US. Competition: McAfee , Symantec. To be fair to Ben Horowitz – I think he thinks this as well.