Thought Leaders in Cyber Security: IRONSCALES CEO Eyal Benishti (Part 1)

We all understand Phishing. Eyal has built a fast-growth company addressing this ubiquitous nuisance.

Sramana Mitra: Tell us about yourself and IRONSCALES.

Eyal Benishti: I’m the Founder and CEO of IRONSCALES. We mitigate the risk of email phishing that businesses face today. We offer simplicity and speed for accelerated visibility for all types of phishing attacks especially those that get past traditional security. We are the fastest-growing email security today. We know how to harness the power of the cloud.

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Thursday, November 17 – 596th 1Mby1M Mentoring Roundtable for Entrepreneurs

Entrepreneurs are invited to the 596th FREE online 1Mby1M Mentoring Roundtable on Thursday, November 17, 2022, at 8 a.m. PST/11 a.m. EST/5 p.m. CET/9:30 p.m. India IST.

If you are a serious entrepreneur, register to “pitch” and sell your business idea. You’ll receive straightforward feedback, advice on next steps, and answers to any of your questions. Others can register to “attend” to watch, learn, and interact through the online chat.

You can learn more here and REGISTER TO PITCH OR ATTEND HERE. Register and you will receive the recording by email, even if you are unable to attend. Please share with any entrepreneurs in your circle who may be interested. All are welcome!

Best of Bootstrapping: Following the Bootstrap First, Raise Money Later Strategy

If you haven’t already, please study our Bootstrapping Course and Investor Introductions page. 

“My journey was as unexceptional as you can imagine,” says Rukkus Founder CEO Manick Bhan, in describing how he got to $1 million annual revenue rate in transactions before raising financing. He shared the whole story with me in 2021. Rukkus was acquired in 2018.

Sramana Mitra: Let’s start by going back to your very beginnings. I want to hear about where you were born, raised, and in what kind of background.

Manick Bhan: Both my parents come from Kashmir. They raised me in Baltimore, Maryland. That’s where I was born. I’ve grown up mostly in the United States. In the very early days, I liked to take things apart. When I was nine, they bought me this bicycle. The first thing I did was I opened the whole thing up. I took out all the screws and basically dismantled the beautiful bike. They were a little horrified about it because it was a birthday present. This has been pretty constant in my life. I like to take things apart and figure out how they work.

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Cloud Stocks: Hubspot Manages to Grow Customer Base Amidst Market Turmoil

Inbound marketing specialist HubSpot (NYSE:HUBS) recently reported its third-quarter results that continued to outpace market expectations. The company is seeing strong headwinds due to the macro economic conditions, but the company is confident of its growth in the coming quarters.

Thought Leaders in Financial Technology: Diversyfund CEO Craig Cecilio (Part 4)

Craig Cecilio: There are little things out there that are meant to protect people, but we’ve to figure out a way to be able to push that out there so people understand what they’re doing. It’s hard for us to tell people exactly, “Don’t invest here. That’s too much money.” That has to be in place.

People need to be educated. That’s the whole thing with crypto. Everyone wants to put money in thinking they can be a millionaire overnight. It’s really the educational component.

Catching Up On Readings: Web3 Market Landscape

This feature from CB Insights covers in detail the market landscape of Web3 tech companies – how it works and what it could mean for consumers and creators. For this week’s posts, click on the paragraph links.

Thought Leaders in Financial Technology: Diversyfund CEO Craig Cecilio (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: As they’re getting educated, are they also getting investment recommendations that they can go and click on and sign up for?

Craig Cecilio: No investment advice. It’s a compliance thing. We can’t give investment advice. That’s another challenge. What can we say and what can’t we say from a compliance point of view? There has been a lot of oversight in the last year or two. As we move from this great bull run over the last 10-plus years to this bear market, the pendulum swings in oversight.

Colors: Le Petit Bateau

I’m publishing this series on LinkedIn called Colors to explore a topic that I care deeply about: the Renaissance Mind. I am just as passionate about entrepreneurship, technology, and business, as I am about art and culture. In this series, I will typically publish a piece of art – one of my paintings – and I request you to spend a minute or two deeply meditating on it. I urge you to watch your feelings, thoughts, reactions to the piece, and write what comes to you, what thoughts it triggers, in the dialog area. Let us see what stimulation this interaction yields. For today – Le Petit Bateau

Le Petit Bateau | Sramana Mitra, 2021 | Watercolor, Pastel, Brush Pen | 8  x 8, On Paper