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Starting Your Cybersecurity Company and Gaining Traction Quickly: How to Fix 7 Common Deadly Mistakes

  • Online Zoom Webinar (map)

You love cybersecurity and showing how smart you are when competing in an NCL competition. You’re thinking about taking things to the next level as you have an idea for the next great cybersecurity company. But, what’s the smartest way to start and scale quickly? 

Dreamit Ventures is a leading early-stage VC firm with a strong focus on Securetech startups. In this pragmatic and fast-paced webinar, two of Dreamit’s leaders, Steve Barsh and Mel Shakir, explain how to get your cybersecurity company started, pointed in the right direction, and gaining traction. You’ll learn how to avoid and fix 7 critical mistakes most startups make in their early years. Walk away with highly actionable tricks and traps including how to:

  • Identify critical assumptions that can kill an idea or company

  • Start speaking with target customers early

  • Create a killer go-to-market strategy 

  • Position your security product with CISOs

  • Leverage the MITRE ATT&CK framework

  • Raise the right amount, and when

  • Ensure you’re covering the most important parts of an investor pitch deck

Earlier Event: October 17
Dreamit Ventures x HLTH 2021
Later Event: March 6
Dreamit Ventures x VIVE 2022