December 12, 2020
Wildcat Founding Partner, Bruce Cleveland, discusses the key takeaway from the book "Traversing the Traction Gap". Get more information on all things Traction Gap here.…
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Wildcat Founding Partner, Bruce Cleveland, shares why he wrote the book "Traversing the Traction Gap". Get more information on all things Traction Gap here. Check…
Wildcat Founding Partner, Bruce Cleveland, discusses the five value inflection points of the Traction Gap Framework. Get more information on all things Traction Gap here.…
Wildcat Founding Partner, Bruce Cleveland, gives a brief overview of the four pillars of the Traction Gap Framework - Product, Team, Revenue, Systems - and…
Wildcat Founding Partner, Bruce Cleveland, gives a brief overview of the Traction Gap Framework. Get more information on all things Traction Gap here. Check out…
January 1, 2020
Join us on Thursday, January 30th at Columbia University’s Career Design Lab in San Francisco, as we hold the final event in our 4-part series…
November 11, 2019
Ep. 60 - Startup Success: Engineering A Market to Traverse the Traction Gap - with Bruce Cleveland It takes guts, determination, and a healthy dose…
Wildcat Founding Partner, Bruce Cleveland, on how to use the book "Traversing the Traction Gap" as a guide to help your startup achieve goals and…
September 9, 2019
As we continue our run on legendary VCs, we feature today Bruce Cleveland, an entrepreneur, executive, venture capital investor and best selling author of Traversing the Traction Gap. We…
Wildcat Founding Partner, Bruce Cleveland, discusses Market Engineering and why it is critical to startup success. Get more information on all things Traction Gap here.…
Wildcat Founding Partner, Bruce Cleveland, discusses his key piece of advice for startup founders based on his book "Traversing the Traction Gap." Get more information…
Join us on Wednesday, September 25th at Columbia University’s Career Design Lab in San Francisco, as we hold our third event in a 4-part series…
Join Capital Factory in welcoming Wildcat Venture Partners on October 8, 2019 for a Lunch & Learn infosession. Industry statistics show that more than 80% of…
August 8, 2019
Bruce Cleveland appeared as a guest on the John D. Villarreal Radio Show - 1210 am Miami. He discusses Wildcat Venture Partners, the Traction Gap…
July 7, 2019
In February this year, we released, Traversing the Traction Gap. The purpose of the book is to provide a roadmap — the Traction Gap Framework —…
June 6, 2019
I spent the early part of last week speaking with enterprise thought leaders and executives from some of the world’s largest organizations at the Enterprise Transformation…
Join us on Thursday, June 20th at Columbia University’s Career Design Lab in San Francisco as we hold our second event in a 4-part series…
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…
This is the second in a three-part series that aims to help you understand the Traction Gap Framework® – a step-by-step approach that startup teams…
May 5, 2019
Product ideation can be the most exciting stage in your starting a company. And once you are able to establish your MVP or most viable…
Welcome to the NVCA Blog series, Building Better, where we celebrate the dynamic relationship between our VC members and their innovative portfolio companies around the…
Bruce Cleveland attended the United States Military Academy and is a Founding Partner at Wildcat Venture Partners, a venture firm that invests in market disruptors and…
This is the first in a three-installment series that is designed to help you understand the Traction Gap Framework® – a step-by-step survival guide for…
Every entrepreneur dreams of turning their big idea into a real business. That said, 85 percent of startups end up failing to get off the…
The book Traversing the Traction Gap explains how you can take an idea and turn it into a $B+ outcome using the Traction Gap Framework®.…
April 4, 2019
From Ideation to Scale: Achieving Startup Traction Join Bruce Cleveland, Founding Partner of Wildcat Venture Partners, and author of the book Traversing the Traction Gap…
Bruce Cleveland, founding partner of Wildcat Venture Partners, discusses the Traction Gap Framework and why he wrote the best selling book, Traversing the Traction Gap.…
In 1991, Geoffrey Moore published the book, Crossing the Chasm which shed a bright light on how technology companies should think about markets. It made…
Some decisions are easier than others. Unlike other investments we have made, we knew from the very beginning Vlocity would be a winner. Why? We…
Part 2 - Thoughts on Current Enterprise Market In Part 1 yesterday, Bruce Cleveland talked about the framework in his new book, Traversing the Traction…
Microsoft took advantage of the Adobe Summit in March to get in front of 17,000 marketers and tout its partnership with Adobe. Particularly, Microsoft and Adobe…
Bruce Cleveland, who many readers may remember from his Siebel days is now an investor and has a new book out, Traversing the Traction Gap.…
March 3, 2019
Join us on Thursday, March 21 at Columbia University’s new Career Design Lab in San Francisco as we kick off a quarterly event series showcasing…
Founding partner at Wildcat Venture Partners, Bruce Cleveland understands the genetics of startups – why most flop, and why a few make it across the…
January 1, 2019
I have had the benefit of working closely — as an operating executive or investor — with some of the top technology B2B early stage startups that subsequently went…
Emerges from stealth with new platform that prevents product failure and optimizes Feature Funnel™ by aligning tech companies’ product plans with strategic business objectives SAN…
The road to startup nirvana is littered with companies that didn’t make it. Industry statistics show that at least 80% fail outright; it’s even higher…
September 9, 2018
Products That Count is one of the largest networks of product managers in the world. Over 200,000 product managers committed to building great products join…
July 7, 2018
According to data collected from product failure rate surveys sponsored by MIT Sloan, University of Michigan, Harvard and many others, the sad truth is that…
Conversational commerce is exploding in chat, delivering what you want, when you want it. Get to know the VCs and angels making it happen. Hey…
February 2, 2018
Four insights from Chicago Booth’s Waverly Deutsch for entrepreneurs hoping to cultivate scalable success How does an entrepreneur know when it’s time to go to…
Most savvy entrepreneurs know that getting a warm introduction to a venture firm substantially improves their odds of getting a meeting — and hopefully an investment. But,…
January 1, 2018
During this week’s roundtable, we had as our guest Bruce Cleveland, Founding Partner at Wildcat Venture Partners, one of the early employees at Oracle, as…
As part of the 1Mby1M initiative, Sramana Mitra is offering this FREE online 1M/1M strategy roundtable to entrepreneurs interested in discussing positioning, financing, and other aspects of…
December 12, 2017
A lot of people who come from big “category king” companies think they can automatically build a legendary business. How has history proven this notion…
November 11, 2017
The top five reasons startups fail are: 1. no market need, 2. ran out of cash, 3. not the right team, 4. get out-competed and…
DisrupTV is a weekly Web series with hosts R "Ray" Wang and Vala Afshar. The show airs live at 11:00 a.m. PT/ 2:00 p.m. ET every Friday.…
October 10, 2017
SeedCon: Entrepreneurship and Venture Capital Conference Cohosted by the Entrepreneurship and Venture Capital (EVC) student group at Chicago Booth and the Polsky Center, SeedCon is a conference designed to bring…
August 8, 2017
On March 2, 2017, Traction Gap Institute (TGI) joined Wildcat Venture Partners, Velocity Coaching and Shasta Ventures to host Building the Perfect Team. During this video…
June 6, 2017
Recently, I had the opportunity to sit down with a longtime colleague, Jim Hughes, founder of Quick Start Strategies, a leading-edge sales advisory firm singularly…
In 2006, after 20+ years in a various product management and engineering roles, I transitioned into an investor role. When I made that transition, although…
April 4, 2017
Tom Mohr, Founder and CEO of CEO Quest, shares his research-backed insights and best practice advice for choosing channel partnerships that maximize company acceleration and…
A Skills Problem The global economy has been rapidly transitioning from a 20th century industrial economy, to a 21st century “digital economy” – an economy…
The founders of BendPoly debuted GreenFig University, an expanded version of the two-year-old digital marketing school, today at the Marketing Nation Summit in San Francisco.…
March 3, 2017
Bruce Cleveland discusses Navigating the Traction Gap EVENT LINK: VetCon WHEN: Friday, March 24, 2017, 4:00-4:45pm (PT) WHERE: GSV Labs - 585 Broadway, Redwood City, CA
February 2, 2017
I have to admit to having an extreme bias. It rears its ugly head when a startup CEO comes into our offices to take us…
January 1, 2017
Watch the video from the event here. DATE AND TIME Wed, January 25, 2017 7:00 PM – 9:00 PM PST LOCATION Yelp Headquarters 140 New…
If you sit down with a number of HR executives and ask each of them which questions companies should ask candidates during the interview process…
September 9, 2016
To successfully scale as a company and to help ensure future rounds of financing, startups must understand the framework of the Traction Gap and abide…
August 8, 2016
As I discussed earlier this month, 2016 has seen a significant drop in Series B financings. In order to successfully secure follow on rounds of…
Venture capital’s grief might be wider than the industry thought: A Series B crunch may be upon us. And this puts more pressure on entrepreneurs…
