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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Framework Architecture Cleveland Early Stage 127

YoungUpstarts

JUNE 1, 2019

by Bruce Cleveland, Founding Partner at Wildcat Venture Partners and author of “ Traversing the Traction Gap “. MVR is the smallest amount of repeatability a startup can demonstrate, while still proving its business model and market/product fit. Minimum Viable Repeatability (MVR).

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Cleveland Framework Marketing Early Stage 150

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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Framework Architecture Cleveland Early Stage 113

Steve Blank

MARCH 2, 2013

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.” I learned that people are in a hurry and busy and they may not care. Next time, I am going to talk to people without my partner so it’s one-to-one.

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Lean SCRUM Ohio Cleveland 312

Steve Blank

JANUARY 20, 2014

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. This “small business” mindset is a holdover of how capital starved early stage startups are/were in Oregon. Fixing the Missing Pieces of Infrastructure.

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Silicon Valley Oregon Lean Angel Investor 320

Steve Blank

MARCH 2, 2013

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.” I learned that people are in a hurry and busy and they may not care. Next time, I am going to talk to people without my partner so it’s one-to-one.

Lean 204

Lean SCRUM Ohio Cleveland 204

Hearpreneur

JANUARY 22, 2017

I have come up with several business names over the years and one of my recent ventures had a clever name that I thought fit perfect for your blog. I sat down with my partner and we brainstormed the name for our business. Most law firms simply use the last names of the originating partners as the name of the company.

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Naming Entrepreneur LLC Software Review 48