Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 16, 2016

This term refers to an initial venture-capital investment, often wrongly sought to seed early product development. In fact, most often, it is limited to seeding a startup business rollout or scale-up after development is completed from friends and family. Sweat equity. Seed-round investment.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 19, 2011

o Early on they hired 3 people from ACT software at once (more team hiring) on staff and supplement it with Agency (in LA worked with First Communications – good). If you need money to even hire a developer [means you cannot even excite one person to put in some sweat equity – not a good sign about your ability to motivate people.].

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socialmatchbox.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

In addition, if you know any developers you should ask them where to post your project or job up and where they recommend you go to meet other developers. In a search done today, a web developer in Washington, DC should make anywhere from $70,000 to $120,000 per year. Another option is sweat equity.

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ReadWriteStart

DECEMBER 29, 2010

Startups are keen on business development and will seek partnerships. More events, money and startups, means more competition, making it all the more necessary to stand out by hiring outstanding people, being more ambitious, more risk-taking. For some odd reason, it is easier to get a visa by being hired, than by establishing a U.S.

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The Startup Toolkit

AUGUST 29, 2012

But they also need to see a product team , and hiring someone to build your version 1 does not bring you any closer to finding a team. So is there ever a time when it’s wise to hire out your prototype? For example, if you are a service business that has a website, hiring out version 1 makes perfect sense.

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chrischandler.name

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

You will require money if you plan on developing software. If you’ve considered finding and asking a developer for his or her time in exchange for sweat equity, I’m going to strongly advise you against it. Not only are these requests often derided, they are often insulting to the developer.

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discuss.joelonsoftware.com

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

where I can learn about how to build a sweat equity team? Rather, it is a proposal for sweat-equity investors. In particular, I want to bring on a full-time marketing person, and a full-time developer. The challenge here is to find candidate sweat equity partners who: 1. The key here is motivation.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 12, 2016

To do this, you will need to invest money in hiring programmers who can build and maintain the app. This way, you can focus your initial days of business in building the marketplace instead of developing an app that costs money. In the early stages of business, sweat equity can often be a good substitute for cash.

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femgineer.com

JULY 18, 2010

HOME About the Femgineer Speaking Engagements Reading List Recruiting Startup Engineers With the startup market taking off, there is always a clamor to find good engineers, developers, and designers. Sweat equity or salary? Here are some things to think about for those on the recruiting side: 1.

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The Equity Kicker

SEPTEMBER 2, 2015

– The essential capabilities in the first months are product design and development. The founding team sets the mould for future employees of a company and the oft repeated cliche that A players hire A players while B players hire C players is very true. Key takeaways. Building the right founding team.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

Gadea leveraged his connections in Silicon Valley to seed viral distribution of the product, which, in turn, generated the revenue to hire engineers and scale the company. is a SaaS tool that companies can use to assess engineers before they hire them. That same year, I started a web development and CRO-focused design agency.

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www.virtuosimedia.com

MARCH 8, 2012

Developers. Gather quotes from multiple (at least 3) development companies for building a minimum feature prototype. Do an initial financial projection based on competitors’ prices, your development costs, and the advertising costs to see if your product is financially viable. Newsletters. Write For Us. User Interface.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 6, 2013

Sassani, the CEO and founder of ZOZI.com, shared a story that demonstrates the new model of networking, “One of my most recent hires was a new public relations person named Tian Lee. I hired her on the spot.” Consider developing a web page. I agreed to write content and was not hired as an on-staff writer.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

Gadea leveraged his connections in Silicon Valley to seed viral distribution of the product, which, in turn, generated the revenue to hire engineers and scale the company. is a SaaS tool that companies can use to assess engineers before they hire them. That same year, I started a web development and CRO-focused design agency.

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grasshopperherder.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Piercing the Corporate Veil – Sweat Equity Consulting. But much like becoming a co-founder, getting paid sweat equity is essentially becoming an investor in the company. If you did, why would you be consulting for sweat equity instead of investing as a VC or for yourself? GrasshopperHerder.com.

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infochachkie.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Such positions include: PR, Sales, Product Development, Lead Generation, Strategic Planning, Fund Raising, etc. At the early stages of your company’s life, you cannot rely on disinterested, hired guns to define your company’s key tasks. Equity should be saved for people who will deliver ongoing value to your venture.

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Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 10, 2016

It can be overwhelming to keep tabs on everything, but if you hire the right people to help you out, things go much smoother. Personal development is the fuel for business growth and making an impact on others and is something that goes with you regardless of business success.

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www.thestartup.eu

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Development: using DjangoPeople and Elance a very international team was born. Developers are in Argentina, Ukraine and Russia. Iphone development: an italian freelance developer found on the web. tags: app budget cheap design development iphone startup startups bootstrap) [.] Total cost: $5000. Total cost: $100.

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rapidrollout.wordpress.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

And James doesn’t have any money to pay for development. How can I go about looking for a (very) good programmer willing to do this as sweat equity? You’ll probably need to contact two dozen serial entrepreneurs with a very well-developed project before you get actionable advice and referrals.

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www.chubbybrain.com

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

That also backfired on service development since we had to focus on current problems instead of adding new functionalities. Don’t exacerbate the issue by needing to figure out how to deal with large equity deadweight on your hands (investors won’t like that the #2 stakeholder is absent, even estranged, from your company).

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www.chubbybrain.com

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

At the end, I asked myself what are the most critical resources I need to be successful and the answer was partners and developers. Post-Mortem Title : My eHarmony for Hiring Failure. So, the best way of dealing with this issue is to take a long, long vesting period for all major sweat equity founders. Company : YouCastr.

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sivers.org

JUNE 25, 2010

Derek Sivers about me blog books email list contact How to hire a programmer to make your ideas happen 2010-06-19 Do you have an idea for a website, online business, or application, but need a programmer to turn that idea into reality? Say, “We are hiring a developer to create only the beginning of an application.

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