darxius

I've been toying with the idea of a security-related startup - possibly geared towards getting other startups to be more security minded by making security easy.

However, I'd like to hear from some people in the security field (or sys admins) to get their opinions on the state of security at their company and in IT in general. What's missing? What are the different pain points when dealing with security? Ever wish a certain product existed?

I'm going to take what I learn from you guys, draft up a survey, and send it out to my network and see what sort of feedback I can get from them.

I'm working with a startup on rolling out a sweet product. In our last meeting we spoke about differentiators for premium accounts and what we could offer to make it worth the money. Obviously, the notion of ads came up for free accounts (which would be disabled if you had a paid account).

I'm not a fan or flashy ads or crap like that. I feel it breaks the "feel" of the simple and clean website we have. I was thinking about using a service which allowed me to use text-only ads and style them in such a way that they fit into the website a lot more. Then I realized I've never seen a startup website that had ads at all.

Is this a good idea? The ads aren't meant to be a major revenue stream, they would pretty much only be introduced to "sweeten" the paid plan.