Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

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. Some entrepreneurs are quick with creative ideas, and even excellent at managing the chaos of initial implementation.

Sweat Equity 239

Sweat Equity Technical Review Bootstrapping Equity 239

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 10, 2016

The allocation of shares among the founders, and the number and size of outside investments, will tells volumes about the health, stability, and management of the business. Most founders like to talk about their many months or years of sweat-equity , but cash invested is a stronger commitment.

Sweat Equity 120

Sweat Equity Burn Rate Technical Review Intellectual Property 120

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 8, 2015

The allocation of shares among the founders, and the number and size of outside investments, will tells volumes about the health, stability, and management of the business. Most founders like to talk about their many months or years of sweat-equity , but cash invested is a stronger commitment. Marty Zwilling.

Technical Review 120

Technical Review Due Diligence Sweat Equity Burn Rate 120

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

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. Some entrepreneurs are quick with creative ideas, and even excellent at managing the chaos of initial implementation.

Sweat Equity 255

Sweat Equity Technical Review Entrepreneur Bootstrapping 255

Gust

DECEMBER 15, 2013

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. Some entrepreneurs are quick with creative ideas, and even excellent at managing the chaos of initial implementation.

Bootstrapping 183

Bootstrapping Sweat Equity Entrepreneur Technical Review 183

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 16, 2013

If you really want to impress a startup founder as a potential employee, or you want to be a smart investor, you need to know the right questions to ask. You need to know this as a future employee, since it probably gates how long your new job will last. How much “skin” is already in the game? What’s in this deal for me?

Due Diligence 253

Due Diligence Sweat Equity Intellectual Property Burn Rate 253

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 2, 2012

If you really want to impress a startup founder as a potential employee, or you want to be a smart investor, you need to know the right questions to ask. You need to know this as a future employee, since it probably gates how long your new job will last. How much “skin” is already in the game? What’s in this deal for me?

Due Diligence 244

Due Diligence Sweat Equity Burn Rate Intellectual Property 244

discuss.joelonsoftware.com

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

where I can learn about how to build a sweat equity team? Right now, my business is just myself and a part-time employee who does support, testing, and product usability design. Rather, it is a proposal for sweat-equity investors. The challenge here is to find candidate sweat equity partners who: 1.

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Gust

DECEMBER 8, 2013

If you really want to impress a startup founder as a potential employee, or you want to be a smart investor, you need to know the right questions to ask. You need to know this as a future employee, since it probably gates how long your new job will last. Image via LeadChangeGroup.com. How much “skin” is already in the game?

Due Diligence 174

Due Diligence Sweat Equity Intellectual Property Burn Rate 174

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 5, 2011

If you really want to impress a startup founder as a potential employee, or you want to be a smart investor, you need to know the right questions to ask. You need to know this as a future employee, since it probably gates how long your new job will last. How much “skin” is already in the game? What’s in this deal for me?

Due Diligence 237

Due Diligence Sweat Equity Intellectual Property Entrepreneur 237

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 20, 2010

If you really want to impress a startup founder as a potential employee, or you want to be a smart investor, you need to know the right questions to ask. You need to know this as a future employee, since it probably gates how long your new job will last. How much "skin” is already in the game? What's in this deal for me?

Due Diligence 229

Due Diligence Sweat Equity Intellectual Property Startup 229

Up and Running

APRIL 10, 2019

Taking on your first employees. Many businesses will hire recruiting and onboarding agencies to find employees for their burgeoning digital marketing agency, but if you’re going to build an agency without funding then you need to be doing this yourself. Training your employees can be a costly business if you are not wise.

Marketing 79

Marketing Bootstrapping Sweat Equity Harvest 79

Scott Edward Walker

JUNE 23, 2011

The most common employment violations are (i) misclassifying an employee as an independent contractor and/or (ii) failing to pay an employee the minimum wage. In short, employees must be paid at least the applicable minimum wage (and typically, at least semi-monthly). Potential Criminal Violations Employment Laws. university.

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Accredited Investor Sweat Equity Los Angeles Finder 82

ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

Running comparative calculations, Arsenault figures that “two senior engineers plus a product manager/marketer for 40 hours per month, times 6 months, would be 720 hours to get to our MVP. is a SaaS tool that companies can use to assess engineers before they hire them. Their typical client spends between $2k and $5k per month.

Sweat Equity 78

Sweat Equity Software Review Vesting Cofounder 78

ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

Running comparative calculations, Arsenault figures that “two senior engineers plus a product manager/marketer for 40 hours per month, times 6 months, would be 720 hours to get to our MVP. is a SaaS tool that companies can use to assess engineers before they hire them. Their typical client spends between $2k and $5k per month.

Sweat Equity 50

Sweat Equity Software Review Vesting Cofounder 50

infochachkie.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Beware The Consultant John Greathouse – Posted in: Cash Flow Management , Launching Venture , Strategic Planning. Instead of hearing from your long lost third-cousin, you will be inundated with an avalanche of ‘congratulatory’ emails, calls and letters from people who want to relieve you of the burden of your hard-earned equity round.

Equity 40

Equity Silicon Valley Cofounder PR 40

www.virtuosimedia.com

MARCH 8, 2012

Hire someone to do a working prototype/proof-of-concept. It’s simply an untenable situation to expect the technical co-founder to assume the full burden of risk through sweat equity. Don’t forget to factor in operating overhead including accounting, legal, insurance, etc. Sign that person to an NDA if necessary.

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Technical Cofounder Cofounder Technical Review NDA 41

grasshopperherder.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Piercing the Corporate Veil – Sweat Equity Consulting. Some have been as co-founder, most have been as a consultant with the possibility of becoming an paid employee, “as soon as we close our funding round.” If you did, why would you be consulting for sweat equity instead of investing as a VC or for yourself?

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Sweat Equity Equity Cofounder Non-Compete 41

philipsmith.typepad.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

While there have been times in the last dozen or so years, usually during times of venture capital excess, that cash to founders, early-stage executives and other key employees has matched regular market compensation (still with the upside of the equity), this is not true in the vast majority in the start-up game. Business Management.

Silicon Valley 40

Silicon Valley Equity Technical Review Recapitalization 40

www.chubbybrain.com

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

I ended up getting rejected by FriendFeed, and then told the other companies that I wasn’t quite ready to go back into the employee world and needed a few months to figure out what I really wanted to do next. So, the best way of dealing with this issue is to take a long, long vesting period for all major sweat equity founders.”.

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Cofounder Startup Technical Cofounder CTO Hire 89

www.chubbybrain.com

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

declined Microsoft’s offer (summer 2000) to be the first enterprise software company with a.NET product (a Microsoft employee came back from a follow-up meeting with Allen and said “He reminds me of a lot of CEOs of companies that we’ve worked with… that have gone bankrupt.”). During this year they.

Software Review 79

Software Review Startup Technical Review Vesting 79

Women Entrepreneurs Can

MAY 9, 2019

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. This can be problematic if employees are stretched too thin; it doesn’t matter how much talent they have or how invested they are into your concept. You Have Positive Cash Flow.

Programming 40

Programming Sweat Equity Startup Private Equity 40

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. Hire one from each.

CTO Hire 84

CTO Hire Hiring Software Review Technical Review 84

Ben's Blog

FEBRUARY 23, 2011

The best companies invest time, money, and sweat equity into becoming world-class recruiting machines. Is it fair game to hire employees from your friend’s company? Nevertheless, almost every CEO will be faced with the decision on whether or not to hire an employee out of her friend’s company. When is it OK?

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Hiring Sweat Equity Employee Engineer 64