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The chaotic ecosystem of Start-ups – Part 1

Background In early 2015, Neil Patel wrote an article in Forbes titled “90% Of Startups Fail: Here’s What You Need To Know About The 10%“. The article was very eye catching and highlighted many issues that contributed to the failure, including challenges with founders, teams, scalability, customer problems, product issues and so on. Thereafter many

2023 – Is this the year of tech layoffs?

Background It has been only 43 days into 2023, but more than 340 technology based companies have already laid off more than 101,807 employees across the world! These numbers have been collated and reported by Layoffs.fyi, a personal project by Roger Lee that’s tracking all tech layoffs since pandemic situation. By itself the number many

New T-Mobile Breach Affects 37 Million Accounts!

Background On January 5, 2023, T-Mobile US, Inc. in a filing today with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, identified that a bad actor was obtaining their data without authorization and had collected almost 37 million records! Any guesses as to what could be the reason for this data breach (Hint: Optus Australia data breach)? Yes,

Fire-sale of the Digital Economy! Are you prepared?

What is Fire Sale? If you are a true “Die Hard” movie franchise fan, you would have certainly heard of a Fire sale. But if not, a Fire Sale is an all-out cyber warfare attack that performs a three-stage systematic attack on a nation’s Information Communications Technology (ICT) infrastructure. Hackers called it Fire Sale because