Category Design and Surviving as a Startup
Learn from Bruce Cleveland, CEO of Traction Gap Partners, about market engineering and what it takes to succeed as a startup.
Ian Faison
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This episode features an interview with Bruce Cleveland, author of the best-seller “Traversing the Traction Gap" and CEO of Traction Gap Partners, a Market Engineering advisory firm.
In this episode, Bruce outlines why most startups fail and explains market engineering, a term he coined to represent the ideas around category design. He shares insights into creating a category and what goes into startup success.
Key Takeaways:
- Market engineering involves the ideas around category design or redefinition thought leadership to create a category.
- There are distinct advantages to being a category leader; the category leader generates about 76% of all the profits from a category. While there is a first-mover advantage, there are also some associated challenges.
- Thought leadership is an essential component of creating a category. People want to be around peers they admire, so gathering the right people together leads to an eventual tipping point that makes it easier for a company to sell.
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Category Design and Surviving as a Startup
Learn from Bruce Cleveland, CEO of Traction Gap Partners, about market engineering and what it takes to succeed as a startup.
Ian Faison
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This episode features an interview with Bruce Cleveland, author of the best-seller “Traversing the Traction Gap" and CEO of Traction Gap Partners, a Market Engineering advisory firm.
In this episode, Bruce outlines why most startups fail and explains market engineering, a term he coined to represent the ideas around category design. He shares insights into creating a category and what goes into startup success.
Key Takeaways:
- Market engineering involves the ideas around category design or redefinition thought leadership to create a category.
- There are distinct advantages to being a category leader; the category leader generates about 76% of all the profits from a category. While there is a first-mover advantage, there are also some associated challenges.
- Thought leadership is an essential component of creating a category. People want to be around peers they admire, so gathering the right people together leads to an eventual tipping point that makes it easier for a company to sell.
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Learn from Bruce Cleveland, CEO of Traction Gap Partners, about market engineering and what it takes to succeed as a startup.
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This episode features an interview with Bruce Cleveland, author of the best-seller “Traversing the Traction Gap" and CEO of Traction Gap Partners, a Market Engineering advisory firm.
In this episode, Bruce outlines why most startups fail and explains market engineering, a term he coined to represent the ideas around category design. He shares insights into creating a category and what goes into startup success.
Key Takeaways:
- Market engineering involves the ideas around category design or redefinition thought leadership to create a category.
- There are distinct advantages to being a category leader; the category leader generates about 76% of all the profits from a category. While there is a first-mover advantage, there are also some associated challenges.
- Thought leadership is an essential component of creating a category. People want to be around peers they admire, so gathering the right people together leads to an eventual tipping point that makes it easier for a company to sell.
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