Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 13, 2012

Explain in terms your mother could understand, and quantify the “cost-of-pain” in dollars or time. Many people seem to use the social network advertising model for revenue, but forget it assumes at least 100M users and $50M investment. Quantify existing skin-in-the-game, by insiders and outsiders, including sweat equity and capital.

Business Plan 283

Business Plan Sweat Equity Exit Strategy Intellectual Property 283

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 2, 2011

Print advertising is expensive, but social media is free. Starting small and nimble allows you to adjust and be flexible as you gain experience instead of being tied to a large concept by heavy investment in upfront costs. Businesses can be built on sweat equity. Being polite and doing diligent work costs you nothing.

Sweat Equity 231

Sweat Equity Startup Angel Investor Seed Money 231

Up and Running

DECEMBER 23, 2019

Sweat Equity. “I This way your biggest cost is just your personal time. Further, we were able to use the winnings from each competition to make small investments in advertising the MVP to get additional user feedback and test ad channels.” – Colton Gardner , Neighbor. Inexpensive Freelance Labor.

Finance 92

Finance Sweat Equity Bootstrapping Entrepreneur 92

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 13, 2011

Explain in terms your mother could understand, and quantify the “cost-of-pain” in dollars or time. Many people seem to use the social network advertising model for revenue, but forget it assumes at least 100M users and $50M investment. Quantify existing skin-in-the-game, by insiders and outsiders, including sweat equity and capital.

Business Plan 290

Business Plan Sweat Equity Exit Strategy Intellectual Property 290

Gust

AUGUST 5, 2012

Explain in terms your mother could understand, and quantify the “cost-of-pain” in dollars or time. Many people seem to use the social network advertising model for revenue, but forget it assumes at least 100M users and $50M investment. Quantify existing skin-in-the-game, by insiders and outsiders, including sweat equity and capital.

Business Plan 182

Business Plan Sweat Equity Exit Strategy Intellectual Property 182

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 22, 2010

Explain in terms your mother could understand, and quantify the “cost-of-pain” in dollars or time. Many people seem to use the social network advertising model for revenue, but forget it requires at least 100M users and $50M investment. Quantify existing skin-in-the-game, by insiders and outsiders, including sweat equity and capital.

Business Plan 186

Business Plan Exit Strategy Sweat Equity Intellectual Property 186

www.virtuosimedia.com

MARCH 8, 2012

Your product must solve an actual need, have a profitable market size, differentiate itself from the competition, generate sufficient interest from your target market, be cost-effective to produce in a timely manner, and have a clear marketing path. Research the cost of advertising your product.

Technical Cofounder 41

Technical Cofounder Cofounder Technical Review NDA 41

ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

“We also got lucky and qualified for some startup benefits with companies like Rackspace, who covered our infrastructure costs for the first year,” continues Arsenault. “We It cost less than $1k to build, and they released it in 2016. The company started coding the first version of their MVP in August 2014, which cost Wigzo $80k.

Sweat Equity 78

Sweat Equity Software Review Vesting Cofounder 78

ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

“We also got lucky and qualified for some startup benefits with companies like Rackspace, who covered our infrastructure costs for the first year,” continues Arsenault. “We It cost less than $1k to build, and they released it in 2016. The company started coding the first version of their MVP in August 2014, which cost Wigzo $80k.

Sweat Equity 50

Sweat Equity Software Review Vesting Cofounder 50

www.thestartup.eu

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Home RSS About Contact Advertise Partners How to bootstrap a Startup with less than $10k. Let’s break down their costs: Logo design: a simple contest on 99designs with a $300 prize. Total cost: $5000. Total cost: $100. TheStartup.eu Meet Tipsandtrip. 114 submissions and a professional logo in less than a week.

Bootstrapping 49

Bootstrapping Italy Sweat Equity Europe 49

Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 24, 2019

People still do some traditional trade advertising, but the downside of all that is it does kind of feel kind of 1970s in terms of we live in a digital world and everything I just described and looked at, it is not virtual, it’s showing up. Going to trade shows is still a very credible thing to do, I wouldn’t discard that.

Product 61

Product Sweat Equity SEO Naming 61

Up and Running

JUNE 26, 2017

Mark Cuban has famously said, “Sweat equity is the best startup capital.” They want to make it simple for you to run a successful online store, and you can feel this through their content, advertising, and website design. Who do you know that can help you? Nearly everyone wants to help and add value where they can.

Sweat Equity 145

Sweat Equity Business Plan Naming eCommerce 145

techcrunch.com

FEBRUARY 19, 2010

Tweet Next Post Previous Post Advertisement Now Commented Facebook Firesheep In Wolves’ Clothing: Extension Lets You Hack Into Twitter, Facebook Accounts Easily NSFW: Changing the world via Twitter? The cost of money is steep, and only works in certain verticals, of which software is NOT one. Might be kinda large market.,

Venture Capital 62

Venture Capital Technical Review Sweat Equity Valuation 62

sivers.org

JUNE 25, 2010

Youll estimate time and cost better. But what I think was hard, and it was something he couldnt consider was that it would be harder to find a *maintaining* programmer, and how much it would cost to run the software, because of technical details he didnt understand. Thinking of your project in milestones makes all the difference.

CTO Hire 84

CTO Hire Hiring Software Review Technical Review 84