Cyber Engine: The Cybersecurity Accelerator Podcast: Recent Episodes
Cyber Engine: The Cybersecurity Accelerator Podcast
Almanna Cyber presents Cyber Engine. The cybersecurity accelerator helping to build the next great cybersecurity company.
Identifying your addressable market and rationalizing your expectations on pricing and penetration are critical to creating financial plans that support investor expectation and your own use of capital. In this episode, Justin and Jack are talking about some practical steps to sanity checking your projections, and they’re giving some examples and warnings on knowing when you might be headed down a suboptimal path.
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Following the release of the Q2 2022 Information Security Report from Pitchbook, Justin and Jack take a dive into the dramatically cooling market of cybersecurity deals. Is this a correction back to normal from 2020? Is this a new lack of confidence in the cybersecurity market overall? Or is this something completely different? Tune in to hear their take on this data and what it might mean for the market going forward into 2023.
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Justin and Jack have a new question in the mailbag, and it’s a big one: When does an idea or a project actually become a company? The commitment of starting a company requires a lot more than just hours, it requires hard work, sacrifices, and taking personal risks to fight for your vision. In this episode of Cyber Engine, Justin and Jack are responding with their own experiences on when they believe an idea becomes a company. Short answer? When you’re willing to burn the boats of your old life and your old job. When you’re willing to devote your full attention with no easy way to retreat, you have the right commitment, decision-making pressures, and focus to build a great company. You’ve proven that you have faith in your vision when you take the risk and jump right in.
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In cybersecurity, no organization, CISO, or vendor, would describe their approach to security as “perfect”, but that doesn’t stop founders from over-thinking and over-polishing their offers prior to sharing them with the world. In this episode of Cyber Engine, Justin and Jack discuss the damage done by demanding perfection in your foundling start-up. Any measure of perfection is too self-referential, and has an infinitesimal half-life in our industry, so the time spent chasing after it does nothing more than retard the timing of solid feedback on the positives and negatives of your offer. The team offers advice and practical steps for understanding and valuing “good enough”, because the market is constantly changing, and your personal view of perfect is not going to be anything like the view of perfect among industry analysts, new prospects, or even members of your own team. Just get moving and get your good enough vision out there.
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In this episode, Justin and Jack are talking with John Egan, longtime award-winning and nationally-recognized legal advisor to start-ups and acquirers, in the rickhouse of his Vermont-based distillery, Mad Rivers Distillers. John covers recommendations for early-stage legal considerations, the role of a solid legal partner in developing a healthy company, and the current climate for funding and M&A activities in the cybersecurity market and beyond. It's a session with plenty of stories, lessons learned, and the kind of advice most people would have to pay for.
To get in contact with John Egan, you can email him at jegan@goodwinlaw.com.
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In the fifth and final episode of Cyber Engine's "Catch the Tire" series, Justin and Jack discuss how to analyze the gaps in a management team and how to navigate filling in those gaps as the company grows. Given their long histories as founders and executives, there are plenty of stories that make this session interesting as well as cautionary for new company leaders. The recommendations are straightforward, and the focus on self-awareness, patience, and direct action, will increase the probability and pleasure of your own success.
Check out this helpful article by Avthar Sewrathan on Self-Awareness in Startups.
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It’s time for the fourth episode in Cyber Engine’s “Catch the Tire” series, and this week Justin and Jack are talking about an area that isn’t part of most companies' early planning, but an effort that will ensure consistent performance and decrease the likelihood of employee burnout. They’re talking about creating lightweight processes and overall systemization.
When that unexpected success starts to ramp everything, those repeatable and reliable systems reduce the accelerating need for new staff while maintaining the quality of delivery that has caused the rapid growth. If you’re looking to create a cybersecurity company that will capitalize on unplanned success, and not struggle through it, this is an episode for you.
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As your company grows, your business processes have to expand in order to meet the new demands you will face with more employees. Justin and Jack sit down to discuss how business processes change in the cybersecurity world, and how to manage a team from a distance, while also being involved enough to have the trust of your employees.
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In the second part of this mini-series on cybersecurity business growth, Justin and Jack come to you with tips on how to learn on the fly and quickly adapt in your new role. Sometimes with accelerated growth and new concerns, you have no time to learn before you act. Being flexible in the way you learn while on the job is imperative to the long-term success of your company.
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In the first of this mini-series on cybersecurity business growth, Justin and Jack discuss how to navigate the forced metamorphosis that comes with landing your first large cybersecurity customer. With the new opportunity comes positive challenges to be on the look out for, and how to successfully navigate through the growth.
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In the first episode of their new podcast, top-rated hosts Justin Fimlaid and Jack Danahy are giving a primer on their plans to connect to the cyber startup community, from smart cyber folks with new ideas to young cyber companies looking to move to the next level. They're also talking about their new cyber accelerator, Almanna Cyber, and the learning involved in moving from a great idea to a great company.
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