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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 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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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? To capture this search engine gold, the leadership team must first agree this is a priority, create a budget for it, and then adopt a notability strategy. He is a Cleveland native and diehard Browns fan, and lives in Portland, OR.

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Thank you

Startup Lessons Learned

I had really debated about whether there was any value in spending the time and money to fly to San Francisco when there was a perfectly serviceable simulcast going on in Cleveland. And a special thanks is due to all of our presenters, panelists, and mentors. You are the ones that consistently blew the audience away. We all owe you.

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Transcript of How to Turn Marketing Costs Into Profit

Duct Tape Marketing

Here’s an online book store that sells some level of technology and now is really the online version of Walmart, and they’re winning Emmy awards for the creation of original content. Another one that I would throw out a big Cleveland hat tip to is Lincoln Electric, another mid-sized company that makes welding torches.

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Startup Lessons for the Proto-Founder

www.metamorphblog.com

You need a Co-Founder, not an Engineering Bitch. Lots of business-y, idea-type people who say they’re looking for a co-founder are, in reality, looking for what is best described as an “engineering bitch.&# Experienced, talented software engineers have lots of options in life, and most of them involve getting paid.

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