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All topics →For founders, by a founder who scaled a customer-identity platform past a billion users: playbooks for starting up, surviving early growth, and the bets that decide whether you make it.
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Founders rebuild MongoDB-as-default, Google Reader, Microsoft Bob without knowing why each one failed. Seven recurring failure patterns, with named examples and how to spot them in your stack.
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Generic founder reading lists do not map to cybersecurity-startup reality. Here is the 16-book list I would hand any cybersecurity founder, ranked by stage.
Founders apply for credits in random order and get rejected because they tripped a referral-required gate they could have unlocked first. Here is the sequence that unlocks $250k+ in 90 days.
A founder's guide to the difference between authentication and authorization in 2026, with passkeys, agent auth, JWT pitfalls, and the mistakes I see at scale.
How to build a cybersecurity product roadmap that survives AI security, compliance deadlines, and threat-driven emergencies. A founder's four-lane framework.
Building software just got 10x easier with AI. That breaks most of the 2015 SaaS playbook. Here are the new hard truths every SaaS founder needs to see clearly.
The ten skills that actually move the needle for tech founders, from a CIAM founder who scaled to a billion users and is now building in AI security.
A founder's practical playbook for landing in the San Francisco tech scene: where to live, who to meet, which events matter, and the mistakes to skip.
I spent ten years engineering, scaling, and defending password-based authentication for a CIAM platform that grew to a billion users.
We cancelled Auth0 over a year ago. Not because it stopped working, but because scaling to 350,000 monthly active users made the pricing model untenable.
Founders raise venture money to extend runway. Then they leave six figures of free credits sitting in a portal they never logged into.
I cancelled my Semrush subscription last month. Not because it stopped working, but because the metrics it tracks no longer predict revenue.
For B2B SaaS companies, Zero Trust isn't an optional enterprise security concept. It's what enterprise buyers are demanding, what audit frameworks
Great cybersecurity products fail daily. Not because of bad technology, but because technical founders can't translate complex security solutions into
90% of B2B SaaS companies fail because they scale with the wrong tactics. This data-driven guide reveals exact strategies for growing from 1-10, 10-100,
Fuel your B2B SaaS startup's growth without breaking the bank! Learn proven bootstrapping strategies to attract customers, generate revenue, and scale
Many people like starting a business because they feel they have a great idea or can do something better than someone else.
Are you interested in getting involved in cybersecurity or tech start-ups? Learn about my story and how I got started in this short video.
In 2018 we closed a $17M Series A to scale LoginRadius. Here is what the round meant and where the journey started.
