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

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Sekur.me , a new Santa Ana-based startup, has come up with a new app and service to use your cell phone for payment, bypassing the complexity of shopping carts. Where are you in terms of launch, and what inspired you to start up the company? We started because of abandoned shopping carts.

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This Week in VC with Dana Settle of Greycroft Partners

Both Sides of the Table

Another topic we debated early in the program was “lean startup” vs. “ fat startup ” where we both took the obvious hedge and said “it depends.” But truthfully both Dana and I are more aligned with the lean startup principles and believe you only go FAT when you’ve really proved out your product / market fit. Founded in 2007.

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Rubicon Project Snags OpenX Exec As Product Management VP

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He also had been at Google, Trend Micro, Symantec, among other companies, including co-founding Silvan Networks, a Sequoia-funded Internet startup from the late 90s. Nguyen was most recently GM/Sr. Director of Product Management for Video, OTT, and Mobile at OpenX. READ MORE>>.

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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). To learn more, we caught up with Steve. Every other hand goes down, and ours stays up.

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Customer Trust Is An Opportunity With A Huge Payback

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That challenge is a major business opportunity, as well as a risk, for startups. There are others, like Norton LifeLock , acquired in 2017 by Symantec for $2.3 Make your company visible, reachable and responsive through social networks. The bad news for startups is that your company can lose big if it’s caught in the middle.

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Is the Future of Cybersecurity in M&A?

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Last month Symantec announced its plans to buy Blue Coat for $4.7 In 2015, Cybersecurity startups saw 332 funding deals with investments hitting the highest ever at $3.8 Symantec Forces the Industry to Stay Competitive. A Startup’s Opportunity to Thrive. billion (235 percent growth over 5 years). Why is this happening?

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Security And Privacy Are Both A Risk and Opportunity

Startup Professionals Musings

That challenge is a major business opportunity, as well as a risk, for startups. There are others, like LifeLock , acquired in 2017 by Symantec for $2.3 Make your company visible, reachable and responsive through social networks. The bad news for startups is that your company can lose big if it’s caught in the middle.