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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 two of these three phases – the first and third – volumes of helpful information and numerous organizations are readily available to help guide and support founders of startups. Go-to-Scale.

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

Up and Running

“I realized in the early 1990s that there was no appropriate yoga for fitness professionals,” says YogaFit® founder, Beth Shaw. The company operates on six continents and boasts more than 250,000 graduates worldwide. says HourlyNerd co-founder and co-CEO, Rob Biederman. “So Feed a need. Beth’s advice.

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LaunchHouse Launches Startup Accelerator Program

YoungUpstarts

If selected, the teams will be required to relocate to Cleveland, Ohio and operate from LaunchHouse ‘s business incubator space for those 12 weeks. If you’re a technology-based startup with two or three co-founders, you can apply for the program here.

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28 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Business

Hearpreneur

Henrik and I co-founded Fisker Inc. With Remitr I saw that opportunity to solve a problem in international B2B payments that was crying for a technology-enabled solution and decided to plunge into it with my co-founding team. I co-founded Sarah Nicole Skincare with the mission for it to be a tool in reclaiming confidence.

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Scaling is Hard, Case Study: athenahealth

Seeing Both Sides

There are many companies that are competing to be the “operating system” for small businesses. For the 15 years since inception, CEO and cofounder Bush has run athenahealth end-to-end. The scorecard includes five major components: stability, operational performance, client satisfaction, financial performance and growth.