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The Drive to Be Different
I’m waiting in line for a cappuccino. It’s gonna be a good one: short, intense, the foamed milk emulsified with the syrupy shot. I glance up from my phone and look around at the cafe. It is, for lack of a better adjective, a hipster joint. There are the artfully branded items for sale (T-shirts, espresso cups, etc.) and a long list of single varietal beans. Hot water is being poured out of sleek Japanese kettles; the baristas are wearing fedoras. And then I look at the other people in line. I notice their costumes: the slim dark jeans, flannel shirts, scuffed boots, designy glasses, mussed hai...
Russia Flaunts Startup Might at Roadshow
“We are only company in world that can protect you from Russian hackers,” says Alexander Chachava.
The company is Cybercop, and according to Chachava, its security software fortifies banks and other large enterprises against hackers from other countries, too, but the emphasis is on Russia, a country increasingly known not only for its underworld hackers but for its burgeoning software industry.
Cybercop was just one of 13 Russian outfits flaunting their technologies at the Skolkovo Road Show in Menlo Park, California this week. Chachava was joined by the likes of...