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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Framework Architecture Cleveland Early Stage 127

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

MAY 5, 2016

Founders will always encounter naysayers, shut out the voices and listen to the customers instead. While d oing Nearpod his education startup, Guido learned to listen to the customers and shut out the naysayers: Guido : I was clueless about how the education system worked other than as a consumer… so I’m learning a lot.

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Brazil Entrepreneur Cleveland Cofounder 163

Steve Blank

MAY 5, 2016

Founders will always encounter naysayers, shut out the voices and listen to the customers instead. While d oing Nearpod his education startup, Guido learned to listen to the customers and shut out the naysayers: Guido : I was clueless about how the education system worked other than as a consumer… so I’m learning a lot.

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Brazil Entrepreneur Cleveland Cofounder 120

Duct Tape Marketing

NOVEMBER 1, 2017

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. When he was talking about the purpose of a business, creating a customer, that idea has become so morphed these days into persuasion, right? We create four, five.

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Cost Marketing Audience Media 36

Up and Running

OCTOBER 3, 2014

OnDeck’s CEO, Noah Breslow, reported in January that his company generated $65 million in revenue last year, a 150 percent increase over 2012 revenues. OnDeck also reported the following gains: A 140 percent year-over-year increase in the number of customers served; A 166 percent increase in the number of applications received; and.

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Small Business SBA Cleveland Early Stage 84