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SXSW Pitch Finalist: Votem

Austin Startup

Votem is a complete end-to-end platform that takes your organization from registration through to results and review. See Votum pitch in the category of Blockchain Technology (12:30 pm to 1:30 pm Sunday, March 15), before a live audience and a panel of expert judges. Support our customers this election season and grow the company.

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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 “. The best way to explain the “gap” in the Traction Gap Framework is to review the three phases that every startup must pass through in order to succeed. Mind the Traction Gap? Go-to-Product. Go-to-Market. 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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Entrepreneurs and the Wikipedia Road Map

The Startup Magazine

But how does a company, executive or technology that does not yet have a Wikipedia page achieve that goal? Traffic from a trusted site like Wikipedia to your website can be powerful in developing new business, attracting employees, forging business partnerships, and building a customer base. Facts only in Wikipedia articles!

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

Up and Running

With my third business, I didn’t even try to be original—I purchased a custom framing franchise and piggybacked to success on someone else’s name. Don’t get focused on the tech or how to dominate the market, just identify a problem and set about solving it. reviews, reputation, Yelp!, In the end, the review?

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The Lean LaunchPad Goes to High School

Steve Blank

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.” Doris Korda, spent the first 15 years of her career in the high-tech industry and is now the Associate Head of School. ” Hawken School has now given us an answer. We didn’t need them.

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