We are Felix and René from the Munich-based cyber security startup Crashtest Security and want to share our 7 key learnings, which we made during our first trip to the Silicon Valley. If you are also interested in cyber security and want to learn more about our security scanner for web applications, checkout our website. Together with 4 other startups from the Technical University of Munich we had the unique opportunity to make a trip to the Valley and get to know the ecosystem from different perspectives. These were our key learnings: