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The Traction Gap Framework: Four Pillars Of Startup Success

YoungUpstarts

At Wildcat, we recommend benchmarking your startup against the four core architectural pillars of the Traction Gap Framework: product , revenue , team and systems. Each has specific requirements linked to each stage and value inflection point of the Traction Gap journey. Product Architecture. Revenue Architecture.

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The Traction Gap Framework: Four Pillars Of Startup Success

YoungUpstarts

At Wildcat, we recommend benchmarking your startup against the four core architectural pillars of the Traction Gap Framework: product , revenue , team and systems. Each has specific requirements linked to each stage and value inflection point of the Traction Gap journey. Product Architecture. Revenue Architecture.

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Traversing No-Man’s Land, The Go-To-Market Phase

YoungUpstarts

In the third and final installation of this series, we’ll examine the four architectural pillars of the Traction Gap Framework. You’ve beaten the odds and are now part of a very small club of startups that survive this process. You are now ready for the go-to-scale phase.

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How can startups engage Amazon and AWS

VC Cafe

AWS Builder Space (Israel) – A non-equity program for early stage startups who are looking to accelerate their speed to market. Startups on Air – Startup founders, CEOs, and CTOs dive into their companies’ histories, products, and technical architecture.

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IoT: Bridging the Performance Promise Gap – Female Founder Series

The Startup Magazine

Fortunately, even in this early stage, the IoT is maturing. IoT architecture and implementation are complex and require a level of expertise few companies can offer. If you have a sea of data to swim through, it is very difficult to winnow out the intelligence you effectively need for your analysis and decision-making needs.

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Top 3 Startup Winner: Digs

The Startup Magazine

At this year’s FUND Conference in Chicago, Illinois, over 100 startups presented their early-stage companies in front of hundreds of investors and industry leaders. My co-founder (Chad Johnson) and I are both architecture graduates, so housing has always been a passion of ours. What inspired you to start Digs?

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From Seed to Series A

Reid Hoffman

The term “early-stage” covers a lot of territory in venture investing, from incubating a brand-new idea, to investing in a Series A. Sarah Guo: “We have to make technical and product calls – and figure out if your particular architecture is going to win a particular set of use cases. That’s what we need to be able to figure out.”