Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 14, 2022

In a moment of crisis, you may be tempted to take on the first person expressing interest as a co-founder. First you have to be clear on who you are, and who you can co-exist with, what complementary skills and resources you need, and what decisions in the business you are willing to relegate. It usually doesn’t work.

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View from Seed

DECEMBER 4, 2014

Editor’s note: Understanding how to divide founder equity at a startup can be tricky, even to the point of reaching emotional riffs between founders. Below, Lee Hower offers advice for approaching these equity discussions objectively and properly.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 23, 2017

Deciding whether to increase money or trade equity in the business for much needed assistance, could be a tough call. I raised money and traded equity, but with my venture, I had to make one of the toughest decisions, to build it with some assistance of co-founders. Find the right co-founders.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 12, 2013

In a moment of crisis, you may be tempted to take on the first person expressing interest as a co-founder. First you have to be clear on who you are, and who you can co-exist with, what complementary skills and resources you need, and what decisions in the business you are willing to relegate. We both have the same vision.”

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 8, 2012

In a moment of crisis, you may be tempted to take on the first person expressing interest as a co-founder. First you have to be clear on who you are, and who you can co-exist with, what complementary skills and resources you need, and what decisions in the business you are willing to relegate. We both have the same vision.”

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 3, 2011

First you have to be clear on who you are, and who you can co-exist with, what complementary skills and resources you need, and what decisions in the business you are willing to relegate. Investors routinely decline to fund co-founders who are siblings, or in a romantic relationship. “We We both have the same vision.”

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www.virtuosimedia.com

MARCH 8, 2012

Home ▶ Businesses ▶ Startup Business Advice ▶ Current Page How To Find A Technical Cofounder For Your Online Business Idea. This article should also serve as a starting guide for programmers who are approached about becoming technical co-founders. Before You Pitch To A Technical Cofounder.

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ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 18, 2012

Kaviani co-founded CoFoundersLab less than tw Shahab o years ago with the aim of bringing entrepreneurs together to launch startups. To find out more about how co-founders can help startups succeed,and how founders can find the right partners, I talked with Kaviani and Julie Edge, Ph.D.,

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 4, 2010

First you have to be clear on who you are, and who you can co-exist with, what complementary skills and resources you need, and what decisions in the business you are willing to relegate. Investors routinely decline to fund co-founders who are siblings, or in a romantic relationship. “We We both have the same vision.”

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ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 18, 2012

Kaviani co-founded CoFoundersLab less than two years ago with the aim of bringing entrepreneurs together to launch startups. To find out more about how co-founders can help startups succeed,and how founders can find the right partners, I talked with Kaviani and Julie Edge, Ph.D., EDGE : Not everyone needs a co-founder.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 10, 2019

In a moment of crisis, you may be tempted to take on the first person expressing interest as a co-founder. First you have to be clear on who you are, and who you can co-exist with, what complementary skills and resources you need, and what decisions in the business you are willing to relegate. It usually doesn’t work.

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Gust

APRIL 11, 2014

Let’s get right down to business: Dilution of founders’ and other early shareholders’ equity in startups is frequently a subject of intense interest and debate. Expert commentators including David S. Viewing each as a discrete measure can make it easier to grasp what is often counterintuitive.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 8, 2017

In a moment of crisis, you may be tempted to take on the first person expressing interest as a co-founder. First you have to be clear on who you are, and who you can co-exist with, what complementary skills and resources you need, and what decisions in the business you are willing to relegate. We both have the same vision.”

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The Startup Magazine

JANUARY 10, 2023

He knows that quality of startup hiring is linked to the tone the founder sets for the company. Apple co-founder Steve Jobs believed that hiring employees was his most important role at Apple. Lemon Perfect’s success comes at a price: Hufnagel and his employees are willing to pay with sweat equity. It works. “We

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 12, 2016

by Anand Srinivasan, founder of LeadJoint.com. Founders need to work on a ‘compartmentalization strategy’ that breaks down their business dream into small components that can be smaller business ideas by themselves. Find a cofounder. Finding a cofounder is hard work and does not happen easily.

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Up and Running

JUNE 23, 2015

Meg Wirth and Allyson Cote, founders of Maternova. I was fortunate enough to speak with co-founder Allyson Cote, and hear the Maternova story, as well as some of its exciting plans for the future. “It took an enormous investment of sweat equity on both our parts,” Allyson admits. We can do better.

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Up and Running

FEBRUARY 5, 2010

It’s for founders who are totally committed to it, for investors who spend money and, later, for the most important trusted key employees. This is from one of his columns, called “A Fairer Share&# : In simple terms, founder stock is issued early in the life of a startup to the founder and co-founders.

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The Equity Kicker

SEPTEMBER 2, 2015

. – Don’t compromise on quality for co-founders and other permanent decisions. And that includes the choice of co-founder. Yet founders want to move fast and there is an inevitable tension between speed and quality. Yet founders want to move fast and there is an inevitable tension between speed and quality.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 28, 2010

You will find that investors don’t often invest in a services business, since there are no assets for equity, and banks don’t lend money to someone with no credit and a mortgage problem. You may have less luck getting an equity investor interested, since the financial returns would likely be low.

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Up and Running

DECEMBER 23, 2019

Sweat Equity. “I Your first proof of concept can be done without a technical co-founder or a lot of money. You can use your own savings to fund your company and move to a cheaper area to save money. You don’t need to be in a big, expensive city to start your company.” – Thomas Griffin , OptinMonster.

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infochachkie.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Instead of hearing from your long lost third-cousin, you will be inundated with an avalanche of ‘congratulatory’ emails, calls and letters from people who want to relieve you of the burden of your hard-earned equity round. Many such ‘congratulations’ will come from consultants. John is a CPA and holds an M.B.A. from the Wharton School.

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Business Plan Blog

NOVEMBER 15, 2013

Milestones That Friends, Family, and Founders Care About Before Investing. As a startup with zero to very low revenue, your friends, family, and cofounders do not expect you to have achieved very many major milestones. Investors at any stage like to see that you have committed personal funds in addition to sweat equity.

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Up and Running

JUNE 7, 2013

In the startup world, you hear the title “co-founder” a lot more than “founder.” Even when someone says the latter, oftentimes you come to find out the person is forgetting to mention the “co” part, because in actuality, there are others involved. In 2009 I co-founded an online venture with two other partners.

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grasshopperherder.com

FEBRUARY 19, 2011

If you’re waiting for a technical co-founder to put up a landing page with signup form, you’re lazy. Show Metrics If you ask me to be a co-founder or even just a consultant, you’re essentially asking me to invest in your company with my time. I just need a co-founder to web enable it!"

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

Mike Arsenault and his two co-founders—all with technical backgrounds—built their MVP while working full time for other SaaS companies. “We An engineer by training, Founder and CEO Larry Gadea built the MVP of Envoy’s first product, Visitors, by himself using only free versions of software. “I spent $20k on their MVP.

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grasshopperherder.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Piercing the Corporate Veil – Sweat Equity Consulting. « Thanks but No Thanks – Things to Avoid When Recruiting Co-founders Why is Cyber Squatter a Bad Word? But much like becoming a co-founder, getting paid sweat equity is essentially becoming an investor in the company.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

Mike Arsenault and his two co-founders—all with technical backgrounds—built their MVP while working full time for other SaaS companies. “We An engineer by training, Founder and CEO Larry Gadea built the MVP of Envoy’s first product, Visitors, by himself using only free versions of software. “I spent $20k on their MVP.

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www.chubbybrain.com

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

After a thorough analysis of those 32 start-up post-mortems, we have determined the common reasons founders gave to compile this list of the top 20 ways to have your startup fail. Work life balance is not something that startup founders often get and so the risk of burning out is high. 13 – Disharmony with Investors/Co-founders.

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 24, 2019

She is the co-founder and CEO of the Grommet and author of How We Make Stuff Now. But assuming without a big budget it’s going to be more about sweat equity and putting in the time to create great content. Check it out at semrush.com/partner/ducttapemarketing , and we’ll have that in the show notes.

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Designmantic Blog

DECEMBER 10, 2015

Sergey Brin – Co-founder of ‘Google’. Ben Cohen – Co-founder of ‘Ben & Jerry’s’. The co-founder of one of the most loved ice cream brands started off with nothing but a correspondence in ice cream making and $14,000. Howard Schultz – Founder Of ‘Starbucks’. Sam Walton – Founder of ‘Walmart’.

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www.chubbybrain.com

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

When a co-founder walks out of a company — as was the case for me — you’ve already been dealt a heavy blow. Don’t exacerbate the issue by needing to figure out how to deal with a large equity deadweight on your hands (investors won’t like that the #2 stakeholder is absent, even estranged, from your company). Company : BricaBox.

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Women Entrepreneurs Can

MAY 9, 2019

Funding has only become more difficult to pursue and isn’t always a viable option for early-on founders to pursue. Solid choices in co-founders can make or break a company’s success. During the early days, these are your key contributors and they must be willing to put as much sweat equity into the organization as you are.

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techcrunch.com

FEBRUARY 19, 2010

Researchers polled experts in lending, mezzanine capital, private equity, venture capital and private businesses themselves. Been there Done that This is very depressing for all future founders, or even currently early stage founders. Not a big shock, but things don’t look pretty, especially in the venture capital world.

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sivers.org

JUNE 25, 2010

Programmers, and certainly not the visionary founders, are the most qualified for that task. #6 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. Co-founders and outsourcing work the same.

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