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.

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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.

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Framework Architecture Cleveland Early Stage 113

YoungUpstarts

JUNE 1, 2019

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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Cleveland Framework Marketing Early Stage 150

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. Dino and I kept in touch as he moved up to Bend, Oregon on a mission to engineer Bend into a regional technology cluster.

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Steve Blank

MAY 5, 2016

Prior to her 21 years as an educator, Doris Korda spent 15 years as an engineer-turned-entrepreneur in the cowboy days of the high tech industry. That sounds like a simple thing, but back then, in the tech world, it was mostly engineers talking tech, bits and bytes. If you can’t hear the clip, click here.

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Brazil Entrepreneur Cleveland Cofounder 160

Steve Blank

MAY 5, 2016

Prior to her 21 years as an educator, Doris Korda spent 15 years as an engineer-turned-entrepreneur in the cowboy days of the high tech industry. That sounds like a simple thing, but back then, in the tech world, it was mostly engineers talking tech, bits and bytes. If you can’t hear the clip, click here.

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Brazil Entrepreneur Cleveland Cofounder 120

Hearpreneur

JANUARY 22, 2017

I have come up with several business names over the years and one of my recent ventures had a clever name that I thought fit perfect for your blog. I sat down with my partner and we brainstormed the name for our business. Most law firms simply use the last names of the originating partners as the name of the company.

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