How bold is too bold? The CFO-forward test
Cybersecurity founders want to stand out and fear standing out. Both instincts are right. There is a working test for where the line sits, and it involves your champion's CFO.
Phill Keaney-Bolland
Articles, podcasts, and training on how cybersecurity companies earn trust and become a category of one.
Cybersecurity founders want to stand out and fear standing out. Both instincts are right. There is a working test for where the line sits, and it involves your champion's CFO.
Phill Keaney-Bolland
Founders debate launch timing endlessly: before or after the raise, before or after the product feels ready. There is no perfect moment. There is a market calendar, and it should set your date.
Phill Keaney-Bolland
Buyers describe a use case to an LLM and get a shortlist of three to five names. How security startups earn a place on it, and why the answer runs through a website you own.
Phill Keaney-Bolland
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Mike Walters had to kill his own products to find the one that scaled. He also thinks vibe coding is about to make distribution matter more than code.

Buyers increasingly describe a problem to a model rather than search a keyword. Deepak Gupta explains what that does to your website, and gives a three-step fix.

Rob Allen spent two decades cleaning up after trust but verify. He explains why a 15 percent error rate makes AI unfit for the final allow or deny decision.
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