Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 8, 2017

Most entrepreneurs who start a company alone soon come to the conclusion that two heads are better than one – someone to share the workload, the hard decisions, and the costs. In a moment of crisis, you may be tempted to take on the first person expressing interest as a co-founder. I’ll put in the money, if you put in the sweat equity.”

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 10, 2016

Every startup founder loves to prompt for questions from investors and potential key team members about their vision, and the huge opportunity that can be had with their disruptive technology. Most founders like to talk about their many months or years of sweat-equity , but cash invested is a stronger commitment.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 12, 2013

Most entrepreneurs who start a company alone soon come to the conclusion that two heads are better than one – someone to share the workload, the hard decisions, and the costs. In a moment of crisis, you may be tempted to take on the first person expressing interest as a co-founder. I’ll put in the money, if you put in the sweat equity.”

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 8, 2012

Most entrepreneurs who start a company alone soon come to the conclusion that two heads are better than one – someone to share the workload, the hard decisions, and the costs. In a moment of crisis, you may be tempted to take on the first person expressing interest as a co-founder. I’ll put in the money, if you put in the sweat equity.”

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rapidrollout.wordpress.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Web Startup Lessons Advice from a CTO and Entrepreneur Home About Finding a Technical Partner for Your Startup Today I received an inquiry from a student at an Ivy League university who wants to launch a web startup. How can I go about looking for a (very) good programmer willing to do this as sweat equity?

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 3, 2011

Most entrepreneurs who start a company alone soon come to the conclusion that two heads are better than one – someone to share the workload, the hard decisions, and the costs. If you think about it, you should realize that not everyone is ‘ideal partner material.’ I’ll put in the money, if you put in the sweat equity.”

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Austin Startup

JUNE 26, 2019

Many people have reached out sharing knowing and kind words about our journey and choice to wind down our venture, as well as their appreciation for my choice to pull back the curtain on what is statistically a common road for many founders. It details a landscape founders like me are excited to sink their teeth into? Of course not!

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 4, 2010

Most entrepreneurs who start a company alone soon come to the conclusion that two heads are better than one – someone to share the workload, the hard decisions, and the costs. If you think about it, you should realize that not everyone is ‘ideal partner material.’ I’ll put in the money, if you put in the sweat equity.”

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 19, 2011

I recently sat down with Matt Coffin , the founder of LowerMyBills, which sold for $400 million but was very nearly a bankruptcy only a few years early, and talked “startups.&#. Called Tim Spicer (c-companies partner) and he told him matt, they only want one thing, more warrant coverage!!! And he said ok got it.

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grasshopperherder.com

FEBRUARY 19, 2011

If you’re waiting for a technical co-founder to put up a landing page with signup form, you’re lazy. Show Metrics If you ask me to be a co-founder or even just a consultant, you’re essentially asking me to invest in your company with my time. I just need a co-founder to web enable it!" Names redacted.)

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ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 18, 2012

Legendary partners all. Sometimes even the most dedicated, uber-competent entrepreneur doesn’t have everything it takes to ensure startup success. That’s when you need that “perfect partner.” Finding that ideal startup partner can be as elusive as finding a compatible mate. EDGE : Not everyone needs a co-founder.

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Up and Running

DECEMBER 23, 2019

To help you better understand your choices — and learn how others have tackled the challenge — we asked a panel of Young Entrepreneur Council members the following questions: When you first started your business, how did you fund it? What advice do you have for entrepreneurs in the early stages who are considering their funding options?

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ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 18, 2012

Legendary partners all. Sometimes even the most dedicated, uber-competent entrepreneur doesn’t have everything it takes to ensure startup success. That’s when you need that “perfect partner.” Finding that ideal startup partner can be as elusive as finding a compatible mate. EDGE : Not everyone needs a co-founder.

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Up and Running

JUNE 23, 2015

Meg Wirth and Allyson Cote, founders of Maternova. The business model is innovative and unique, and the business itself serves as a fantastic “how to” example for entrepreneurs looking to start a social, mission-driven business. “It took an enormous investment of sweat equity on both our parts,” Allyson admits.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 28, 2010

I always love to get questions from my readers, and I answer them all, but sometimes I feel like the “Dear Abby’ for entrepreneurs. I am looking for funding of $50K in startup funds, and would like to partner with the right investor to provide this and other future funding as needed. If we help each other, then we all win.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 10, 2016

by Anand Srinivasan, founder of LeadJoint.com. A lot of aspiring entrepreneurs fail to make the move to running their own business either due to lack of funds or time. This is however capital intensive and why a lot of aspiring entrepreneurs choose to stay away. But starting your own business does not come easy.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 13, 2016

Entrepreneurs who are looking to attract investors need to develop and pitch a plan -- preferably written -- that answers every potential investor question about your startup before it is asked. Quantify founder investments, both cash and sweat-equity. What are your specific marketing and sales plans?

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www.chubbybrain.com

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

We’d previously highlighted the top startup failure post-mortems of all-time here (32 in total) written by a group of startup entrepreneurs gracious enough to share their lessons learned from their startup’s failure. We were obviously wrong about Untitled Partners’ ability to grow through the subsequent downturn. #19

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Designmantic Blog

DECEMBER 10, 2015

Sergey Brin – Co-founder of ‘Google’. Brin was a college graduate who, with his partner Larry Page secured funding to launch ‘Google’; a search engine that would eventually be considered as one of the most valuable brands in the world according to Forbes.com. Ben Cohen – Co-founder of ‘Ben & Jerry’s’.

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www.chubbybrain.com

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

We love a good entrepreneurial success story – entrepreneur as protagonist overcomes obstacles and builds a thriving, successful company (and become wealthy while doing so). At the end, I asked myself what are the most critical resources I need to be successful and the answer was partners and developers. It’s free.

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Growthink Blog

MAY 23, 2011

An entrepreneur starts a company in classic " bootstrap " fashion - with a combination of sweat equity and their own financial resources. The angel then introduces the entrepreneur to his or her wealthy friends and business connections who, based on the good reputation of the referring angel, also invest.

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www.virtuosimedia.com

MARCH 8, 2012

This article should also serve as a starting guide for programmers who are approached about becoming technical co-founders. Here’s a typical situation that goes awry: An entrepreneur has an idea for something online and after talking to a few friends who like it, decides to try to turn the idea into a business. Red Flags Galore.

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Up and Running

JUNE 26, 2017

So many entrepreneurs have great ideas, yet what they need is an actionable plan for getting to the next level. Any entrepreneur, investor, or even editor will tell you the best businesses solve a problem. Our founders thought, “Why is it so hard to actually get ahold of someone at a business? The solution?

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infochachkie.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Hands-on startup advice for emerging entrepreneurs. Basing a consultant’s compensation on the incremental revenue they generate is a great example of a deal that is on The Fringe (for other creative approaches to partnering, see Agreements on The Fringe). One of the best things about being an entrepreneur is that there are no rules.

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techcrunch.com

FEBRUARY 19, 2010

Been there Done that This is very depressing for all future founders, or even currently early stage founders. A little piece of advice for future founders: find something that turns revenue quick, profitable and cash flow positive quick and forget about fantasy businesses that take a decade to turn profitable like twitter!

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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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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 24, 2019

This transcript is sponsored by our transcript partner – Rev – Get $10 off your first order. Check it out at semrush.com/partner/ducttapemarketing , and we’ll have that in the show notes. She is the co-founder and CEO of the Grommet and author of How We Make Stuff Now. Back to Podcast. Transcript.

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www.thestartup.eu

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Home RSS About Contact Advertise Partners How to bootstrap a Startup with less than $10k. Entrepreneurs, which by definition are stubborn entities are therefore finding creative and cheap ways to bootstrap their startups. TheStartup.eu Meet Tipsandtrip. Debug/usability: UserTesting and $100. Total: $8,350. V.inspiring!

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Altgate

MAY 1, 2009

I’m a visual person so here’s how I see it: Entrepreneurs start companies and the founders (“F&# in my chart) invest capital which they grow with sweat equity and then limited partners (“LPs&# ) invest capital via VCs which in turn grows the pie to the eventual “exit&# (which comes in the form of M&A or IPOs).

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sivers.org

JUNE 25, 2010

trav (2010-06-19) # This is GPS for would-be web entrepreneurs lost in a sea of ideas with no sailors to steer their imaginary ship. Weve built Sandcastle specifically for an entrepreneur with an idea, who is not a developer. Sandcastle is a software development service for entrepreneurs. Should be read by any web entrepreneur.

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