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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. Votem is based in Cleveland. Why Cleveland?

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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? Then the draft is posted in a neutral space and volunteer editors are invited to review it to weigh in on notability. He is a Cleveland native and diehard Browns fan, and lives in Portland, OR. No modifiers!)

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3rd Annual Women in Tech Summit Examines Strength, Fundraising & Diversity

Austin Startup

On Monday, September 23, Austin Startup Week had an impressive kick-off at Capital Factory where over 400 women and allies gathered at the 3rd Annual Women in Tech Summit! Inspired and taking notes in a packed house at the Women in #Tech Summit @CFWoman ! Our winners of the Women in Tech Summit Startup Showcase is. thebrobes !

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

Up and Running

Don’t get focused on the tech or how to dominate the market, just identify a problem and set about solving it. Along the way, the group brought on another classmate, Joe Miller, to handle the technology end. After that, she used a combination of high-tech and low-tech to develop her idea. “I In the end, the review?

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