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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Padlocks, hoodies and fear-driven copy are still the default in cybersecurity marketing. Kelly Allen and Sara Carty explain why, and what replaces them when different minds get to write.

Justin Woody ran 250 conversations before Twine settled on identity risk. He explains what turns conference visibility into trust, and why doing fewer things is the harder discipline.
The framework episode. Revolutionary Vision, a proposition worth choosing, and why attracting the right customers means repelling the wrong ones.
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