Gust

DECEMBER 15, 2013

In fact, most of the rich entrepreneurs you know actively turned away early equity proposals. Too many founders are convinced they “need” equity financing, for the wrong reasons, as outlined in the book and supplemented with a bit of my own experience: Need employees and professional services.

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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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socialmatchbox.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Founders seem to take for granted exactly how in demand a good programmer is. Simultaneously, founders tend to take for granted how in demand bad programmers are too. There is a huge demand for programmers in America – good and bad. Another option is sweat equity.

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David Teten

MARCH 9, 2021

We love founder(s) who can say any of the following: Mindset . Being a founder is not for the faint of heart. One or more of our past coworkers are joining us in this new business, and working for sweat equity.”. “We need to raise to keep up with demand.” Even if it’s not in a business arena–e.g.,

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 10, 2016

by Anand Srinivasan, founder of LeadJoint.com. This is often a fantastic opportunity if you are already a skilled roofer or carpenter who can offer sweat equity. Anand Srinivasan is the founder of LeadJoint.com , an online lead generation tool for digital marketing agencies.

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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. For instance, let us assume that you want to launch an Uber-like on-demand app for commercial trucks.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 2, 2011

By John Williams Fast Company magazine recently reported that PayPal founder Paul Thiel is giving away $100,000 to twenty-four young men and women to finance startup businesses. Businesses can be built on sweat equity. As your services gain demand, your time becomes more valuable and you can charge more.

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infochachkie.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Given all the demands on your time, the hours spent educating a consultant regarding your business are costly. John is currently a partner at Rincon Venture Partners , a venture capital firm investing in early stage web-based businesses, and is a Co-Founder of RevUpNet , a performance-based online marketing agency. link] Luis Rivera.

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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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Occam's Razor

NOVEMBER 24, 2009

Klout is a wonderful little tool that measures Klout Score , a proxy for "influence": It is easy to understand the market demand to boil things down to one number, but this is perhaps the least useful thing in Klout. Be willing to put in the sweat equity. Here are some that I humbly believe look promising.

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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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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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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. They’re very demanding, regardless of background.”. Howard Schultz – Founder Of ‘Starbucks’.

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techcrunch.com

FEBRUARY 19, 2010

Yeah, you should get out more Just Because Google Exists Doesn’t Mean You Should Stop Asking People Things Skype Demands Mobile App Nimbuzz Remove Support, Effective October 31st Shunned By Apple, Adobe Embraces Android With AIR 2.5 Been there Done that This is very depressing for all future founders, or even currently early stage founders.

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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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