Trevor Baines
Trevor Baines is the Director of AI Engineering at SafeHill, a Mucker portfolio company in the continuous threat and exposure management (CTEM) space. He is a cybersecurity professional whose career began with a childhood curiosity about how things work, and how they break. Rooted in offensive security and application penetration testing, his work has grown beyond finding vulnerabilities to building the tools, processes, and systems that help security teams operate more effectively. Today, he works at the intersection of cybersecurity, AI, and operations, focusing on integrating AI-driven solutions that make security work faster, smarter, and more human.
Copycats and Category Busters
Once in a while, a seminal startup (let’s call them “category busters”) would appear to magically birth a whole new market category while engendering a legion of copycats and derivatives...
Segmentegery – The Art of Segmentation
Patrick Vlaskovits (Go Falcons!) was over at MuckerLab the other day talking to our companies about customer development which reminded me of the most important (only?) skill I took away...
Back to The Chasm
Before Eric Ries, and even before Clay Christensen, there was Geoffrey Moore. Moore’s Crossing the Chasm was a seminal book at the time it was published in 1991, and should...
MuckerLab Top Ten Predictions for 2012
Was feeling a bit left out by all the smart and daring people putting forth their forecasts for the coming year, so I decided to join the party. While most...
Waiting for Social Commerce
Since the founding of Facebook and Twitter; pundits, VC’s and entrepreneurs have been predicting the second tidal wave innovation to transform the e-commerce business as we had known it. “Social...
Does Groupon Have a Future Beyond Daily Deals?
Below is an editorial I wrote for MediaPost a few weeks back. It was published today. It may be premature to talk about the “second act” of a company that...
Dispelling FUD in Mobile Payments
Mobile Payment is quickly becoming as useless of a term as Cloud Computing. Companies across a wide spectrum of use cases and industries are quickly re-positioning themselves as a player...
The LOCAL Innovator’s Solution
I did a lot of complaining last week on the hurdles of selling products and services to SMB’s. Typically, I hate people who spent most of their days trying to...
Dreamhost + MuckerLab
We are proud to announce our partnership with the team at Dreamhost. Together, we strive make it easier, faster; and dare we say it, cheaper to turn your ideas into...
The LOCAL Innovator’s Dilemma
By my count, around 100 startups focused on local were launched between Q2 and Q3 of 2011. there are mobile apps, deals/offers companies, social relationship management dashboards, ad networks, merchant...