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Equity-Only CTO and Equity-Only Developers

SoCal CTO

Understand where they were in terms of being able to pay or was this equity-only (sweat equity only). Unless you are a co-founder of the startup, a developer is probably not going to do all that well working on sweat equity alone. How To Find A Programmer To Build Your Startup Idea Another option is sweat equity.

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Why We Shouldn’t Be In Love With Startups 

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Many Startups Lack Demand. One feature that is prevalent among many failing (or soon-to-be-failing) startups is an overall lack of demand. There may be a large addressable market, but that market itself is not demanding things like solar power for Porto-Potties or a major societal shift that involves changing the Constitution.

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Why We Shouldn’t Be In Love With Startups 

ReadWriteStart

Many Startups Lack Demand In both funding startups and servicing them, I have seen almost every idea under the sun. One feature that is prevalent among many failing (or soon-to-be-failing) startups is an overall lack of demand. Without demand, startups falter and ultimately fail. Find blue ocean opportunities.

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How we Hire for Sweat Equity (Part 2)…

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Next → How we Hire for Sweat Equity (Part 2)… Posted on April 7, 2011 by Travis Biziorek. Developers weren’t as in high of demand. Firstly, these high demand developers probably are near impossible for me to get. Musings on Life and the American Dream. Skip to primary content. Skip to secondary content.

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The Smartest Entrepreneurs Bootstrap Their Startup

Startup Professionals Musings

If you are not able to keep up with demand due to lack of funds for production, and your company is too young for banks to be interested, you will find that investors love these odds, and are quick to go for a chunk of the action. On the other hand, there are clearly situations where your needs call for investors.

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Don’t Look For Investors for All the Wrong Reasons

Startup Professionals Musings

If you are not able to keep up with demand due to lack of funds for production, and your company is too young for banks to be interested, you will find that investors love these odds, and are quick to go for a chunk of the action. On the other hand, there are clearly situations where your needs call for investors.

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Most Entrepreneurs Should Never Bring On Investors

Startup Professionals Musings

If you are not able to keep up with demand due to lack of funds for production, and your company is too young for banks to be interested, you will find that investors love these odds, and are quick to go for a chunk of the action. On the other hand, there are clearly situations where your needs call for investors.