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

YoungUpstarts

This is the second in a three-part series that aims to help you understand the Traction Gap Framework® – a step-by-step approach that startup teams can use to go from ideation to preparing to scale. Read on to find out what exactly the “gap” in the Traction Gap Framework is and why traversing that gap is so critical to your success.

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Wish Wildly With Abandon

Gregg Fraley, Author of Jack's Notebook

Tools and frameworks help. You need tools and frameworks for: Looking at your current research for fresh insights, Casting a wide net for new possibilities, new ways to innovate, Considering new technology and existing shelved IP. So we wish practically and list unexciting project ideas. Visioning takes practice.

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How to Ensure Your Business Stays on The Right Side of the Law

Women Entrepreneurs Can

Intellectual Property: Guard Your Treasures In the age of information, your business’s intellectual property (IP) is like buried treasure. Whether it’s a trademark, copyright, or patent, protecting your IP is crucial to keeping copycats at bay and ensuring your brand remains uniquely yours.

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What is the Right Burn Rate at a Startup Company?

Both Sides of the Table

Let’s set up a framework. So money spent should add equity value or create IP that eventually will. A Framework to Guide You: So putting it all together, you should always be mindful of your personal circumstances and market conditions. But what IS the right amount of burn for a company? Gross Burn vs. Net Burn.

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How to Divide Founder Equity: 4 Criteria to Discuss

View from Seed

The most successful approaches to splitting founders equity typically involve establishing a framework that all the co-founders buy into at the outset. Ideation/IP. Sometimes a portion of founders’ equity splits are attributed to “who came up with the idea” or to actual IP that’s brought into the business at inception.

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Qualcomm’s Corporate Entrepreneurship Program – Lessons Learned (Part 2)

Steve Blank

Doing so meant they would have to take risks for IP acquisition and customer/market risks outside their experience or comfort zone. If I were starting a corporate innovation program today, I’d use the Lean LaunchPad classes as the starting framework. Developing a program to generate new ideas is the easy part.

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Enhancing Marketing Strategies with AI Assistance

Duct Tape Marketing

It's something that trademarked IP that I call the marketing hourglass. So you can pick any framework that you're familiar with out there, and there are many consultants who've produced frameworks. We have a very, as many of you longtime listeners would know, we have a very specific approach to developing a customer journey.