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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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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YoungUpstarts

MAY 7, 2019

At Wildcat, we’ve organized these steps into the Traction Gap Framework – a centralized strategy that codifies key lessons learned by me and my founding General Partners over the course of our decades-long operating and venture investing experience. Market-Engineering. So, what is ”market-engineering”? Selling to Investors. .

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The Startup Magazine

JANUARY 22, 2023

Don’t forget that in the age of social media and the internet, many customers search for businesses by typing names into a search engine. If your business operates multilingual, consider if the name is easy to read, write and pronounce for people in those cultures. Other customers may mistake you for an eye clinic.

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The Startup Magazine

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Don’t forget that in the age of social media and the internet, many customers search for businesses by typing names into a search engine. If your business operates multilingual, consider if the name is easy to read, write and pronounce for people in those cultures. Other customers may mistake you for an eye clinic.

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 20, 2014

Dino and I kept in touch as he moved up to Bend, Oregon on a mission to engineer Bend into a regional technology cluster. Part 3: Engineering a Regional Tech Cluster. These people are important and useful in the engineering of a tech cluster; as startup coaches, angel investors and advocates for the community.

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