Business Model, Cleveland and Customer

The Traction Gap Framework: Four Pillars Of Startup Success

YoungUpstarts

JUNE 4, 2019

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.

Framework

Framework Architecture Cleveland Early Stage

The Traction Gap Framework: Four Pillars Of Startup Success

YoungUpstarts

MAY 24, 2019

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.

Framework

Framework Architecture Cleveland Early Stage

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

YoungUpstarts

JUNE 1, 2019

by Bruce Cleveland, Founding Partner at Wildcat Venture Partners and author of “ Traversing the Traction Gap “. At this stage, the team is seeking market and customer validation metrics. The MVP is the most pared-down version of a product that customers are willing to purchase or use. Minimum Viable Product (MVP).

Cleveland

Cleveland Framework Marketing Early Stage

SXSW Pitch Finalist: Votem

Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

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?

Technical Review

Technical Review Cleveland Software Review Iowa

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

Steve Blank

JANUARY 20, 2014

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. This “small business” mindset is a holdover of how capital starved early stage startups are/were in Oregon. Fixing the Missing Pieces of Infrastructure.

Silicon Valley

Silicon Valley Oregon Lean Venture Capital

The Woodstock of K-12 Education

Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 23, 2014

Over the last few years it’s become clear that the days of teaching “how to write a business plan” as the cornerstone of university entrepreneurship are over. We now understand the distinction between startups – who search for a business model – versus existing companies – that execute a business plan.

Lean

Lean Cleveland Balance Sheet Ohio

Entrepreneurs are Everywhere Show No. 30: Guido Kovalskys and Doris Korda

Steve Blank

MAY 5, 2016

Founders will always encounter naysayers, shut out the voices and listen to the customers instead. It gets you to a business faster. Including that there are a lot of naysayers in the education business. . … If you feel passionate, and have positive customer feedback, then go do it. So I decided to ignore the naysayers.

Brazil

Brazil Entrepreneur Cleveland Cofounder

Entrepreneurs are Everywhere Show No. 30: Guido Kovalskys and Doris Korda

Steve Blank

MAY 5, 2016

Founders will always encounter naysayers, shut out the voices and listen to the customers instead. It gets you to a business faster. Including that there are a lot of naysayers in the education business. . … If you feel passionate, and have positive customer feedback, then go do it. So I decided to ignore the naysayers.

Brazil

Brazil Entrepreneur Cleveland Cofounder

Transcript of How to Turn Marketing Costs Into Profit

Duct Tape Marketing

NOVEMBER 1, 2017

So early on in the book, you evoke one of my heroes Peter Drucker, talking about the purpose of a business. And actually that statement of the purpose of a business — to create, keep a customer — is probably the genesis of Duct Tape Marketing, believe it or not. Is this another evolution of content marketing?

Cost

Cost Marketing Audience Media

10 Entertaining Things to Check out While You’re Waiting in Line Today

Up and Running

NOVEMBER 28, 2014

From company executives talking of investigating the personal lives of journalists who don’t view their company favorably, to a raunchy French Uber post that had many customers reaching to delete the app, they’ve really been stepping in it lately. The Cleveland Clinic’s Top 10 for 2015. You go girl!

Saudi Arabia

Saudi Arabia Africa San Francisco Cleveland

The Lean LaunchPad Goes to Middle School

Steve Blank

MARCH 2, 2013

Hawken is an independent school for grades K-12 in Cleveland, Ohio, committed to the idea that students learn more “by doing than by listening.” By Tuesday morning, students fleshed out what they believed to be their value proposition and customer segments. helps students who are stuck completing a business model canvas.

Lean

Lean SCRUM Ohio Cleveland

The Lean LaunchPad Goes to Middle School

Steve Blank

MARCH 2, 2013

Hawken is an independent school for grades K-12 in Cleveland, Ohio, committed to the idea that students learn more “by doing than by listening.” By Tuesday morning, students fleshed out what they believed to be their value proposition and customer segments. helps students who are stuck completing a business model canvas.

Lean

Lean SCRUM Ohio Cleveland

35 Entrepreneurs Explain How They Came Up With Their Business Name

Hearpreneur

JANUARY 22, 2017

After years working in fashion PR/Marketing in NYC and Milan, and then as a co-founder/owner of a Brooklyn-based rock ’n’ roll play space for kids under 5, I found myself becoming overly excited about my friends starting new businesses. 14 – Concept Behind the Business Model. Thanks to Keval Baxi, Codal ! #14

Naming

Naming Entrepreneur LLC Software Review

The Lean LaunchPad Goes to High School

Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 28, 2013

Hawken is an independent school for grades K-12 in Cleveland, Ohio, committed to the idea that students learn more “by doing than by listening.” I framed the search for a viable business model as the focus. We determined as a class that we wouldn’t pass judgment on ideas until we dove into the customer development process.

Lean

Lean Cleveland Ohio Business Model

The Lean LaunchPad Goes to High School

Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 28, 2013

Hawken is an independent school for grades K-12 in Cleveland, Ohio, committed to the idea that students learn more “by doing than by listening.” I framed the search for a viable business model as the focus. We determined as a class that we wouldn’t pass judgment on ideas until we dove into the customer development process.

Lean

Lean Cleveland Ohio Business Model

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The Traction Gap Framework: Four Pillars Of Startup Success

The Traction Gap Framework: Four Pillars Of Startup Success

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

SXSW Pitch Finalist: Votem

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

The Woodstock of K-12 Education

Entrepreneurs are Everywhere Show No. 30: Guido Kovalskys and Doris Korda

Entrepreneurs are Everywhere Show No. 30: Guido Kovalskys and Doris Korda

Transcript of How to Turn Marketing Costs Into Profit

10 Entertaining Things to Check out While You’re Waiting in Line Today

The Lean LaunchPad Goes to Middle School

The Lean LaunchPad Goes to Middle School

35 Entrepreneurs Explain How They Came Up With Their Business Name

The Lean LaunchPad Goes to High School

The Lean LaunchPad Goes to High School

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