Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 29, 2012

Those at the other extreme don’t look up from the grindstone long enough to notice whether all their work is producing sweat equity or just sweat. Word of mouth advertising and viral marketing cost big bucks these days so budget for it. Starting a business may be fun, but it’s not easy. Marketing is top priority.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 2, 2016

That’s why all those so-called million dollar ideas I hear about as an investor don’t get me excited, and entrepreneurs find that working twenty hours a day often generates nothing more than sweat, instead of the desired sweat equity. Watch that patent provide a real barrier to competitive entry.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 16, 2015

That’s why all those so-called million dollar ideas I hear about as an investor don’t get me excited, and entrepreneurs find that working twenty hours a day often generates nothing more than sweat, instead of the desired sweat equity. Watch that patent provide a real barrier to competitive entry.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 12, 2016

You will also need an advertising budget and sales/marketing professionals who can make that happen. Entrepreneurs often believe that the only way to find traction is by advertising your business. In the early stages of business, sweat equity can often be a good substitute for cash. That seems like a lot of capital.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 12, 2010

Those at the other extreme don’t look up from the grindstone long enough to notice whether all their work is producing sweat equity or just sweat. Word of mouth advertising and viral marketing cost big bucks these days so budget for it. Starting a business may be fun, but it’s not easy. Marketing is top priority.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 13, 2012

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. This is how you will make money, who pays you, and gross margins. Funding requirements.

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Up and Running

DECEMBER 23, 2019

Sweat Equity. “I 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. You can use your own savings to fund your company and move to a cheaper area to save money.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 2, 2011

Print advertising is expensive, but social media is free. Businesses can be built on sweat equity. John is a veteran of over two decades in the advertising industry. But when your only capital is your hard-earned seed money, every penny that goes out will be scrutinized painfully. You can keep overhead low.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 13, 2011

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. This is how you will make money, who pays you, and gross margins. Funding requirements.

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Gust

AUGUST 5, 2012

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. This is how you will make money, who pays you, and gross margins. Funding requirements.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 22, 2010

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. This is how you will make money, who pays you, and gross margins. Funding requirements.

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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? good luck blog comments powered by Disqus Advertisement Got a tip? The big question is just how long that reset takes. the article here.

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crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 25, 2012

And for those of you who believe that branding requires a huge investment in media and advertising, you are probably thinking about this in the wrong way. SM is cheap, fast, flexible, powerful and, with an investment of sweat equity, can bring meaningful returns to a small business.

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www.virtuosimedia.com

MARCH 8, 2012

Research the cost of advertising your product. Look at online advertising rates for your potential product keywords, industry publications ad rates, search engine optimization fees, and any other advertising avenues you’d like to pursue.

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Up and Running

JUNE 7, 2013

For example with my current venture Credit Card Forum , if I want to change the price of advertising package or terminate a deal with Bank of America and sell it to Capital One, that’s my right to do so. Jealous of the equity pie being split in three equal pieces, the other two decided to vote me out.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

Co-founder and CEO Kyle Wong, who was featured on Forbes’ 30 Under 30 List, says the company’s MVP was built using “sweat equity.” Wigzo is an AI cloud automation tool that ecommerce merchants can use for personalization , analytics, and advertising. They’ve spurred growth, in part, by charging for usage—not seats.

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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.

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Scott Edward Walker

JUNE 23, 2011

As I discussed in my recent post “ How To Hire a Superstar Engineer for Your Startup ,” startups may not give employees “sweat equity” in lieu of any ongoing cash payment/salary; nor may startups defer wages and other compensation. And simply calling a worker a “consultant” or “independent contractor” in an agreement is irrelevant.

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Ben's Blog

JUNE 29, 2010

Years and years of research and sweat equity went into cracking the code, and the results are magical. As importantly, we are very excited about Foursquare’s ability to make money in a way where all parties win: users, merchants, venue owners, brand advertisers, and more. A gigantic market. At a macro level, over 4.6B

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

Co-founder and CEO Kyle Wong, who was featured on Forbes’ 30 Under 30 List, says the company’s MVP was built using “sweat equity.” Wigzo is an AI cloud automation tool that ecommerce merchants can use for personalization , analytics, and advertising. They’ve spurred growth, in part, by charging for usage—not seats.

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www.thestartup.eu

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Home RSS About Contact Advertise Partners How to bootstrap a Startup with less than $10k. Sweat Equity: Juliette and Marco put in a bit of work during weekends as project managers, designers, developers, sysadmins, etc. TheStartup.eu Meet Tipsandtrip. MyGengo.com and Tolingo.de. 24h turnaround and a great service.

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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.

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Occam's Razor

JANUARY 20, 2010

But if you are willing to put in a little bit of sweat equity then you'll stand miles apart from your SEO competitors. " Oh look the states with really high credit card searches don't have really high visa card searches, maybe we should do some offline advertising! I know we look for short cuts. " In April 2009!!

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sivers.org

JUNE 25, 2010

Im a UX and front end designer bootstrapping my own products with pure sweat equity at night but always looking for someone else to partner with(engineer/programmer)to bring these ideas life. Harry (2010-06-19) # Derek, I just discovered your blog and this article from Hacker News. Insightful. Thanks much.

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