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10 Entrepreneur Milestones That Make Funding Easy

Startup Professionals Musings

It doesn’t prove your business model of pricing, distribution, and support. Investors like to see that you have committed personal funds as well as “sweat equity,” and they like to see real progress at this level. Real customers give you real feedback, rather than just tell you what you want to hear. Show personal investment.

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10 Keys to Startup Traction That Investors Look For

Startup Professionals Musings

It doesn’t prove your business model of pricing, distribution, and support. Investors like to see that you have committed personal funds as well as “sweat equity,” and they like to see real progress at this level. Real customers give you real feedback, rather than just tell you what you want to hear. Show personal investment.

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These 10 Steps Will Make Your Startup Fundable

Startup Professionals Musings

It doesn’t prove your business model of pricing, distribution, and support. Investors like to see that you have committed personal funds as well as “sweat equity,” and they like to see real progress at this level. Real customers give you real feedback, rather than just tell you what you want to hear. Show personal investment.

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Ten Tips for Business Traction to Attract Investors

Startup Professionals Musings

It doesn’t prove your business model of pricing, distribution, and support. Investors like to see that you have committed personal funds as well as “sweat equity,” and they like to see real progress at this level. Real customers give you real feedback, rather than just tell you what you want to hear. Show personal investment.

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Snowflakes in the Valley: What Happens When 40 Nordic Entrepreneurs Visit Silicon Valley

ReadWriteStart

Unsurprisingly, this seems to weed out the less passionate people, while encouraging others to put in sweat equity in their own ideas. The last thing you want when you launch is to tailor to several languages, cultural differences, distribution channels and small blogs and other media.

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Mathematical vs. Economic Dilution of Startup Equity: Thinner Slices of an Extra-Large Pizza

Gust

Entrepreneurs frequently think of equity primarily in terms of percentages such as 50/50 or 40/40/20 — not necessarily a bad idea at inception, or even throughout the lifecycle of a traditional business, such as real estate, where cash distributions, capital contributions, and allocations of profit or loss for tax purposes can be made accordingly.

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Top Startup Mistake 8: Misunderstanding Equity

Up and Running

Unlike stock that is acquired as the business grows, founder stock is primarily granted for sweat equity–so it’s difficult to distribute fairly if there are multiple founders with different roles and levels of commitment.

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