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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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How To Build A Startup That Doesn’t Flop

YoungUpstarts

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. However, there are steps you can take to dramatically increase your chances of success.

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Your No Fear Career

YoungUpstarts

For example, I left my Midwest hometown of Cleveland, Ohio to go to the Deep South and attend the University of Alabama. I also give keynote speeches on fearless leadership and lead workshops that bring people with different points of view onto the same page. The things I do are fearless on another level.

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Bigger in Bend – Building a Regional Startup Cluster–part 1 of 3

Steve Blank

When Customer Development and the Lean Startup were just a sketch on the napkin, Dino Vendetti, a VC at Bay Partners, was one of the first venture capitalists I shared my ideas with. So I launched The Big Bend Theory with Bruce Cleveland. Over the years we brainstormed about how Lean entrepreneurship would affect regional development.

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Invest in Israel Newsletter – June 2012 Edition

VC Cafe

Girls in Tech London picked the top women in 19 countries – the UK, Ireland, Spain, France, Germany, Italy, Belgium, the Netherlands, Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Finland, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Russia, Turkey, Greece and Israel – on the basis of their leadership and excellence in innovation and technology.

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Transcript of Tapping Into Existing Connections to Network Smarter

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This transcript is sponsored by our transcript partner – Rev – Get $10 off your first order. He’s a bestselling author, speaker and associate professor of Leadership and Innovation at Oral Roberts University. And then a random person that saw me speak in Cleveland is typing a message on there. Back to Podcast.