Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

Yet, according to many sources , over 90 percent of all businesses are started and grown with no equity financing, and many others would have been better off without it. In fact, most of the rich entrepreneurs you know actively turned away early equity proposals. Need expensive resources up front. Your company has outgrown you.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

Yet, according to many sources , over 90 percent of all businesses are started and grown with no equity financing, and many others would have been better off without it. In fact, most of the rich entrepreneurs you know actively turned away early equity proposals. Need expensive resources up front. Your company has outgrown you.

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Gust

DECEMBER 15, 2013

Yet, according to many sources , over 90 percent of all businesses are started and grown with no equity financing, and many others would have been better off without it. In fact, most of the rich entrepreneurs you know actively turned away early equity proposals. Need expensive resources up front. Your company has outgrown you.

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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.

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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.

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socialmatchbox.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

If they hire an accountant to help prepare and file their taxes that may cost around $500. Another option is sweat equity. It is important to realize that most people who are willing to work for sweat equity are not a) the best, b) in demand, and c) going to put their heart and soul into your project.

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David Teten

MARCH 9, 2021

We hired a coach to help make us a world-class team.” . One or more of our past coworkers are joining us in this new business, and working for sweat equity.”. One of our past colleagues / managers is investing.”. “We If we meet you over a period of a month, we’ll notice what happens during that month.

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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. Mark Walsen Mark Walsen Thursday, October 09, 2008 Deleting … Approving … I think you would be better off hiring people, rather than trying to convince them to work for free in exchange for equity.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 16, 2013

The intent of this question is to determine the level of commitment of founders, both cash and “sweat equity,” and how much others have already invested into this plan. They should be asking to speak to you if you are a potential investor or a superstar hire. How much “skin” is already in the game?

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 10, 2016

The same goes for time since some businesses can be managed with just a few hours a week while with other businesses, you may need to spend all your waking hours managing the operations. You could find cheap products to buy at auctions and hire third party professionals to fix the product before you sell.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 2, 2012

The intent of this question is to determine the level of commitment of founders, both cash and “sweat equity,” and how much others have already invested into this plan. They should be asking to speak to you if you are a potential investor or a superstar hire. How much “skin” is already in the game?

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 5, 2011

The intent of this question is to determine the level of commitment of founders, both cash and “sweat equity,” and how much others have already invested into this plan. They should be asking to speak to you if you are a potential investor or a superstar hire. How much “skin” is already in the game?

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Gust

DECEMBER 8, 2013

The intent of this question is to determine the level of commitment of founders, both cash and “sweat equity,” and how much others have already invested into this plan. They should be asking to speak to you if you are a potential investor or a superstar hire. How much “skin” is already in the game?

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 20, 2010

The intent of this question is to determine the level of commitment of founders, both cash and "sweat equity,” and how much others have already invested into this plan. They should be asking to speak to you if you are a potential investor or a superstar hire. How much "skin” is already in the game?

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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.

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Up and Running

APRIL 10, 2019

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. When you’re ready, you can hire the right people for the culture that you create around your business.

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Up and Running

JULY 10, 2018

What about hiring a landscaping service to take care of yard work, or a mother’s helper to be around the house when you need it during the day, just as an extra set of hands? While it’s to be expected that you’re going to put a lot of time and sweat equity into starting a business, make sure you’re also carving out time for your family.

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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.

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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. Management has the wrong pedigree, is geographically undesirable, competes in the wrong industry, and/or has a business model that lacks "scalability credibility" with the venture community. .

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www.virtuosimedia.com

MARCH 8, 2012

Hire someone to do a working prototype/proof-of-concept. However, I would consider working at a discounted rate for equity in an idea that I believed showed merit and profitability potential. It’s simply an untenable situation to expect the technical co-founder to assume the full burden of risk through sweat equity.

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Scott Edward Walker

JUNE 23, 2011

As I discussed in my recent post “ How To Hire a Superstar Engineer for Your Startup ,” startups may not give employees “sweat equity” in lieu of any ongoing cash payment/salary; nor may startups defer wages and other compensation. university.

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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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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.

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philipsmith.typepad.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Two Tales of "Working For Equity". Working for equity only is, realistically, the way most startups have to get going. a year burn rate and your equity is worthless due to numerous recapitalizations and bridge loans from investors then either you don't get it or I'm stupid to do it. » January 23, 2010.

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Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 10, 2016

When advising a client or managing a project, I embrace the trust and responsibility bestowed upon me. It can be overwhelming to keep tabs on everything, but if you hire the right people to help you out, things go much smoother. I started my company a little over a year ago.

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www.thestartup.eu

OCTOBER 23, 2010

With some great project management and a few crowdsourcing platforms. Sweat Equity: Juliette and Marco put in a bit of work during weekends as project managers, designers, developers, sysadmins, etc. Tipsandtrip was born from an idea of social media consultant Juliette Bellavita and Blogo.it CEO Marco Magnocavallo.

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rapidrollout.wordpress.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

I’ve managed to contact two serial entrepreneurs by email, give them the pitch, and both of them agreed with me but commented that it would be a challenge to set up. How can I go about looking for a (very) good programmer willing to do this as sweat equity? I have a related dilemma. So you see my dilemma.

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Up and Running

JUNE 26, 2017

Mark Cuban has famously said, “Sweat equity is the best startup capital.” On the other hand, Kalo is a site for recruiting, managing, and paying freelancers. Can anyone tell me what “Kalo” has to do with project management? You might even want to hire a professional! Who do you know that can help you?

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www.chubbybrain.com

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

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). 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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www.chubbybrain.com

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

Post-Mortem Title : My eHarmony for Hiring Failure. Don’t exacerbate the issue by needing to figure out how to deal with a large equity deadweight on your hands (investors won’t like that the #2 stakeholder is absent, even estranged, from your company). It’s a pain to manage payroll, unemployment, insurance, etc in one state.

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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. Good cash flow management, boiled down to the simplest essence, means that key principles understand every dollar received and every spent and never delegate this key process out.

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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. Hire one from each.

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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. Will you still be friends?

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