How to go global from the early stages with Bjorn Zinssmeister, Templarbit

Bjoern Zinssmeister is the co-founder and CEO of Templarbit, a
San Francisco-based developer-oriented security platform. Started
less than a year ago, it has already been through Y Combinator,
has raised $3 million in funding and is successfully conquering
the Asian market, starting with Japan.


Bjoern left Germany for San Francisco as soon as he graduated
university. In 2010 there simply wasn’t enough interesting tech
coming from Europe to keep him around. It was all in Silicon
Valley.
Before he founded Templarbit, a developer-oriented security
platform, Bjoern took seven years to learn the trades of building
and running tech companies. His journey started at Match.com up
and concluded in Design Inc where he was the CTO.


Listen on to hear:


How to pitch to Y Combinator with confidence

Does going to Y Combinator help 

How to go global as an early stage company

How to conquer the Asian market

Why closing a company even with a million in the bank may be
the right thing to do



P.S.
Bjoern is one of many speakers we will have at SaaStock18
alongside the likes of founders and operators such as Corey
Thomas, CEO at Rapid7, Frederic Kerrest, COO at Okta and Brynne
Kennedy, CEO at MOVE Guides. Sign up for our Insider Sale
https://insider.saastock.com by April 1st to get a 2 for 1 ticket
discount code.


 


 


 


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