How To Build A Cyber Security Startup With Sramana Mitra

Learn from the Trenches How to Build a Cyber Security Startup

What you'll learn

Through in-depth interviews with successful founders of cyber security startups, learn how they built their businesses.

How to identify promising startup ideas.

What the innovative trends and business models are in the cyber security space to ignite your ideation.

When and how to bring on a team.

When to start raising funds for a startup.

How to scale your business.

What the exit options are.

Requirements

The only requirement for this course is an open mind and a willingness to learn.

Description

The 1Mby1M Methodology is based on case studies. In each course, Sramana Mitra shares the tribal knowledge of tech entrepreneurs by giving students the rare seat at the table with the entrepreneurs, investors and thought leaders who provide the most instructive perspectives on how to build a thriving business. Through these conversations, students gain access to case studies exploring the alleys of entrepreneurship. Sramana’s synthesis of key learnings and incisive analysis add great depth to each discussion.As the threat from bad actors continues to increase, Cyber Security has been, over the last 30+ years, one of the most active areas of entrepreneurship. In this course, we bring you case studies of entrepreneurs in the various subdomains of the Cyber Security universe.You will need to understand the 1Mby1M methodology of startup building, heavily rooted in bootstrapping and early validation from other relevant courses. In this course, we focus on the domain-specific issues related to Cyber Security. There are nuances of Go-to-Market Strategy, for example, that are specific to Cyber Security, that you would need to understand. The course would also serve well to catalyze ideation.Venture Capital will continue to flow into Cyber Security. The threat from bad actors will continue to intensify.As such, building a startup in this domain remains an attractive option for entrepreneurs.

Overview

Section 1: How to Build a Cyber Security Startup

Lecture 1 Introduction to How to Build a Cyber Security Startup

Lecture 2 How to Build Cyber Security Startups

Section 2: How to Build a Fraud Prevention Startup

Lecture 3 Introduction to Fraud Prevention Startups

Lecture 4 IRONSCALES CEO Eyal Benishti on Phishing

Lecture 5 Cybellum CEO Slava Bronfman's Entrepreneur Journey

Lecture 6 D4t4 CEO Bill Bruno on Cyber Fraud

Lecture 7 More Fraud Prevention Startup Case Studies

Section 3: How to Build an Enterprise Cloud Security Startup

Lecture 8 Introduction to Enterprise Cloud Security Startups

Lecture 9 Elisity CEO James Winebrenner on Segment-Based Network Security

Lecture 10 RackWare CEO Sash Sunkara on Cloud Infrastructure

Lecture 11 More Enterprise Security Startup Case Studies

Section 4: How to Build a Data Security Startup

Lecture 12 Introduction to Data Security Startups

Lecture 13 Druva Co-founder Jaspreet Singh Tells India’s Flagship Global Product Story

Lecture 14 Egnyte CEO Vineet Jain on Cloud Storage and File Sharing

Lecture 15 More Data Security Startup Case Studies - SM Video

Section 5: How to Build an Identity Management Startup

Lecture 16 Introduction to Identity Management Startups

Lecture 17 Ping Identity CEO Andre Durand Builds an IPO-Ready Software Company

Lecture 18 More Identity Management Startup Case Studies

Section 6: How to Build a Cyber Analytics Startup

Lecture 19 Introduction to How to Build a Cyber Analytics Startup

Lecture 20 Stellar Cyber Co-founder and CTO Aimei Wei on Cyber Analytics

Lecture 21 More Cyber Analytics Startup Case Studies

Section 7: How to Build B2C Cyber Security Startups

Lecture 22 How to Build B2C Cyber Security Startups Introduction

Lecture 23 Gryphon CEO John Wu Discusses Strategy on Building a B2C Startup

Section 8: How to Build FinTech Cyber Security Startups

Lecture 24 Introduction to How to Build FinTech Cyber Security Startups

Lecture 25 Stox CEO Yossi Peretz Discusses Blockchain

Lecture 26 More FinTech Cyber Security Startup Case Studies

Section 9: How to Build Additional Types of Cyber Security Startups

Lecture 27 Introduction to Buiding Additional Types of Cyber Security Startups

Lecture 28 RiskRecon CEO Kelly White on Risk within the Cyber Security Domain

Section 10: Investor Perspectives on Cyber Security Startups

Lecture 29 Cyber Security Opportunities and More: Eric Benhamou, Benhamou Global Ventures

Lecture 30 Cyber Security Expert VC Dafina Toncheva, US Venture Partners

Section 11: Additional Content

Lecture 31 Practice Exercise 1

Lecture 32 Practice Exercise 2

Lecture 33 Bonus Lecture

Those with knowledge of or interest in the cyber security industry who want to turn this into a multi-million dollar revenue businesses by becoming startup founders rather than remain employees or contractors.,Aspiring founders who want to increase their chances of being accepted into top startup accelerators such as Y Combinator, Techstars, and 500 Startups.,Any entrepreneur who wants to learn from successful entrepreneurs who have been in your shoes.,Professors teaching technology entrepreneurship courses anywhere in the world.