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Dan Lok Explains Venture Capital Funding and How to Secure It

The Startup Magazine

Dan Lok explains what venture capital funding is and how to secure it for your business. It is possible to attract a venture capital partner with an idea for a business, but most deals are closed after the business has a founding team , a minimum viable product or MVP, and customers. What is Venture Capital Funding?

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The Firewall Is Dead – What Can Businesses Do To Protect And Secure Their Brands?

YoungUpstarts

It doesn’t, however, change the fact that firewalls are still only perimeter protection devices and are limited to applying security policies against visible packets that travel through them. In other words, firewalls are only about as good as traffic cops when a security threat requires a well-coordinated SWAT team these days.

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53 Questions Developers Should Ask Innovators

TechEmpower

Are there other founders, business leaders, partners, or administrators? Security What are the business / application’s specific security risks? Where are you today, and what’s happening right now? What’s been done so far to validate the concept? Who are the other stakeholders involved? Ads, Viral/Social, SEO)?

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Cyber Security At The Start

YoungUpstarts

Typically, the idea of cyber security comes later down the road after a company compromise or when the organization is filing for compliance & regulations. Yet cyber security should be a crucial consideration for entrepreneurs during the initial steps of creating their vision. Bring on a security-conscious CTO at the beginning.

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Technical Review: A Trusted Look Under the Hood

TechEmpower

Are you preparing to expand, take your business in a new direction, or take on new partners? This part of the report can go deep on how your software stacks up with respect to feature delivery, security, reliability, and scalability. Are there repeated bugs or security holes? Does the code follow best practices? Why TechEmpower?

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Growth Acceleration Partners Says Diversity and Inclusion is Key to its Success as a Custom Software Developer

SiliconHills

Instead of seeking venture capital, Joyce Durst, Co-Founder, and CEO of Growth Acceleration Partners decided to bootstrap the software development company. Growth Acceleration Partners, known as GAP, offers analytics, cloud, mobile and QA services. At that company, she raised […]. At that company, she raised […].

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When Security Can Become Your Business Differentiator, Everybody Wins

YoungUpstarts

by Mark Seward, VP of security solutions at Anomali. And this is certainly true in the cyber security sector. Many of the most exciting and innovative solutions to current cyber security problems are being produced by small and medium sized businesses.