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Lessons learned: How I founded, bootstrapped, grew and sold my web startup

Carl Mercier — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 19:27:21 +0000

On April 6, 2009, I gave a presentation at MeshU in Toronto, Canada. I was surprised to see how much buzz it generated on Twitter and in the blogosphere. If you missed it, here’s your chance to judge by yourself…

HD Video on iTunes (missing the last 20-25 mins unfortunately):

MeshU - Part 1

MeshU - Part 2

A quick recap of what I said.
And Jonathan Keebler live-blogged the event at ScribbleLive.
My slides:

View more presentations from cmercier.

I guess this is as close as it gets to being there in person! Looking forward to your comments!

Defensio acquired!

Carl Mercier — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 21:13:13 +0000

It is my pleasure to announce that my latest venture, Defensio (Karabunga Inc), has been acquired by leading Internet security company, Websense, Inc (NSDQ: WBSN).

I’m not quite moving to the Caribbeans just yet as I’m now employed by Websense as Director of Software Development. Needless to say, this is an exciting challenge for me and an amazing opportunity to further protect the web from all the malicious content that’s being posted nowadays. Our users should rejoice because we have a lot of amazing ideas already cooking!

Read the official acquisition announcement here for more details...