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. Reserve the same names on the leading social networks and blogs. Word of mouth advertising and viral marketing cost big bucks these days so budget for it.

Sweat Equity 256

Sweat Equity Intellectual Property Entrepreneur Viral 256

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. Reserve the same names on the leading social networks and blogs. Word of mouth advertising and viral marketing cost big bucks these days so budget for it.

Sweat Equity 222

Sweat Equity Intellectual Property Viral Salary 222

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

Business Plan 283

Business Plan Sweat Equity Exit Strategy Intellectual Property 283

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

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

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

Business Plan 186

Business Plan Exit Strategy Sweat Equity Intellectual Property 186

www.thestartup.eu

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Let’s break down their costs: Logo design: a simple contest on 99designs with a $300 prize. Total cost: $5000. Total cost: $100. Sweat Equity: Juliette and Marco put in a bit of work during weekends as project managers, designers, developers, sysadmins, etc. Developers are in Argentina, Ukraine and Russia.

Bootstrapping 49

Bootstrapping Italy Sweat Equity Europe 49

grasshopperherder.com

FEBRUARY 19, 2011

If you’re negotiating my equity percentage by nickels and dimes, I probably don’t want to work with you. If you offer me 1% of the equity, I’ll do 1% of the work. There’s potential in the political and speech-related micro-transaction (networked citizen lobbing, news, journalism, etc.) if it can be harnessed.

Cofounder 47

Cofounder NDA Founder Sweat Equity 47

rapidrollout.wordpress.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

How can I go about looking for a (very) good programmer willing to do this as sweat equity? You can find a technologist to join you as a partner, for half of the company’s equity. It’s common for a college student to do a sweat equity partnership with another college student. So you see my dilemma.

Technical Review 40

Technical Review Fractional CTO Partner CTO Hire 40

www.chubbybrain.com

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

created a vastly higher cost structure; I had 80 people mostly on base salaries under $100,000 and was bringing in revenue at the rate of $20 million annually. Contributing to the high cost structure was the new culture of working 9-5 Monday through Friday. deprecated the old feature-complete product (ACS 3.4) Company : EventVue.

Software Review 79

Software Review Startup Technical Review Vesting 79

techcrunch.com

FEBRUARY 19, 2010

Researchers polled experts in lending, mezzanine capital, private equity, venture capital and private businesses themselves. The cost of money is steep, and only works in certain verticals, of which software is NOT one. It’s a saturated market, with high costs and lack of innovation. A lot of the stats weren’t surprising.

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