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Bruce Cleveland: Part 1- Traversing the Traction Gap

deal architect

Bruce Cleveland, who many readers may remember from his Siebel days is now an investor and has a new book out, Traversing the Traction Gap. I had a long ranging conversation with him about the book and also about trends.

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Bruce Cleveland - Part 2 - thoughts on current enterprise market

deal architect

In Part 1 yesterday, Bruce Cleveland talked about the framework in his new book, Traversing the Traction Gap. Here we talk about partnering and white spaces in the market. Most enterprise vendors now offer their own platforms. Could they use.

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SXSW Pitch Finalist: Votem

Austin Startup

Votem Founder and CEO Pete Martin is a successful serial entrepreneur, with more than 25 years of experience in the technology business and enterprise-software space, and author of the upcoming book, “ Sparking a Mobile Revolution: How Mobile Voting Will Change the World as We Know It. ” Votem is based in Cleveland. Why Cleveland?

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Pros and Cons of Being Your Own Boss

Up and Running

And I built a software company because I believed the product was needed. Don’t stay in Cleveland if you prefer Klamath Falls. We need to get the software done, tested, and published. In my case, being my own boss, or not, was never really the point. The own boss factor was something that came along with it. Up to you.

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6 Tips for Coming Up With Your Million-Dollar Business Idea

Up and Running

In the early 1990s, my brother was working for a company that was going through the roof selling shareware software via catalog. She says her idea began to take shape after she went through Bizdom Detroit, an entrepreneurial accelerator program founded by Quicken Loans and Cleveland Cavaliers owner Dan Gilbert.

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Thank you

Startup Lessons Learned

I had really debated about whether there was any value in spending the time and money to fly to San Francisco when there was a perfectly serviceable simulcast going on in Cleveland. Kent Beck is deservedly famous for his many contributions in the software industry. Do you know the difference between Durant and Sloan ?

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28 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Business

Hearpreneur

Previously, I had worked in creating shrink-wrapped software products for 10 years and then headed a dotcom venture which failed. This was followed by moderate success in starting my own cloud-based HR software. It was then that I realized that there was no software to help me run the business. Photo Credit: Rory Crawford.