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The Traction Gap Framework: Four Pillars Of Startup Success

YoungUpstarts

by Bruce Cleveland, Founding Partner at Wildcat Venture Partners and author of “ Traversing the Traction Gap “ As we continue our exploration of the Traction Gap Framework® – a step-by-step approach that startup teams can use to go from ideation to preparing to scale – I will walk you through the principles.

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

YoungUpstarts

by Bruce Cleveland, Founding Partner at Wildcat Venture Partners and author of “ Traversing the Traction Gap “. In the first post , we drilled down into the often-overlooked notion of “market-engineering” and why it’s so critical. As you develop your product, you must concurrently invest in market-engineering tasks.

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The Traction Gap Framework: Four Pillars Of Startup Success

YoungUpstarts

by Bruce Cleveland, Founding Partner at Wildcat Venture Partners and author of “ Traversing the Traction Gap “ As we continue our exploration of the Traction Gap Framework® – a step-by-step approach that startup teams can use to go from ideation to preparing to scale – I will walk you through the principles.

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Entrepreneurs and the Wikipedia Road Map

The Startup Magazine

Traffic from a trusted site like Wikipedia to your website can be powerful in developing new business, attracting employees, forging business partnerships, and building a customer base. To capture this search engine gold, the leadership team must first agree this is a priority, create a budget for it, and then adopt a notability strategy.

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3 Mistakes to Avoid When Naming Your Business

The Startup Magazine

First, if your business name is too similar to another business, customers may get confused and mistake your business for the other one. Also, if the other business is well-established, it may already have a strong brand and a loyal customer base, which could make it difficult for you to compete.

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3 Mistakes to Avoid When Naming Your Business

The Startup Magazine

First, if your business name is too similar to another business, customers may get confused and mistake your business for the other one. Also, if the other business is well-established, it may already have a strong brand and a loyal customer base , which could make it difficult for you to compete.

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Bigger in Bend – Building a Regional Startup Cluster–part 1 of 3

Steve Blank

When Customer Development and the Lean Startup were just a sketch on the napkin, Dino Vendetti, a VC at Bay Partners, was one of the first venture capitalists I shared my ideas with. Dino and I kept in touch as he moved up to Bend, Oregon on a mission to engineer Bend into a regional technology cluster.