Slava Bronfman: It was a better year in terms of sales. Earlier, a lot of our sales were based on physical conferences. It’s hard to compete as a small startup. If you go to a conference and you have a small booth, it’s hard to compete. Now remote working levels the playing field. We felt
Sramana Mitra: You’re giving a lot of automotive examples. Is that one of the areas where you entered the market? Slava Bronfman: Yes, we wanted to start with one segment that we can really understand well. We started with automotive. Today, we are in other segments like medical devices and industrial IoT. When we started,
Sramana Mitra: By December, you had the MVP. How many of the other customers came on board? Slava Bronfman: Just a handful in the first quarter of 2017. Sramana Mitra: What was the incident to make you realize that you had to pivot?
Sramana Mitra: You’ve finished this accelerator program and you’ve got some mentors. What was your trajectory? Were you building a product first? Were you talking to customers? Where did the validation of your idea come from? Slava Bronfman: We were a bit naive. We just started building the product. Our product is very tech-heavy. We
Slava was a Cyber Security geek in the Israeli military. In this interview, he tells the story of his transition to a successful entrepreneur. Cybellum has been acquired by LG but continues to operate as an independent business unit subsidiary within the conglomerate. Awesome story with numerous lessons for geeks who aspire to be entrepreneurs.