Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 13, 2012

Quantify existing skin-in-the-game, by insiders and outsiders, including sweat equity and capital. Exit strategy. For a family business, don’t project an exit. Otherwise, identify your preferred exit strategy, including specific candidates for merger or sale, and timeframe. Funding requirements.

Business Plan 283

Business Plan Sweat Equity Exit Strategy Intellectual Property 283

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. Im confident that this business will be able to compensate these two additional principles along the way, after initial risk of investing their time, and will later reward their vesting with an exit strategy.

Sweat Equity 40

Sweat Equity Equity Angel Investor Affiliate 40

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 13, 2011

Quantify existing skin-in-the-game, by insiders and outsiders, including sweat equity and capital. Exit strategy. For a family business, don’t project an exit. Otherwise, identify your preferred exit strategy, including specific candidates for merger or sale, and timeframe. Funding requirements.

Business Plan 290

Business Plan Sweat Equity Exit Strategy Intellectual Property 290

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 13, 2016

Quantify founder investments, both cash and sweat-equity. Technically, this is your exit strategy, usually a merger and acquisition (M&A) or initial public stock offering (IPO). Since investors are buying a part of your company (not your product), this is the most important question, and is one often not answered.

Sweat Equity 120

Sweat Equity Advisory Board Liquidity Event Startup 120

Gust

AUGUST 5, 2012

Quantify existing skin-in-the-game, by insiders and outsiders, including sweat equity and capital. Exit strategy. For a family business, don’t project an exit. Otherwise, identify your preferred exit strategy, including specific candidates for merger or sale, and timeframe. Funding requirements.

Business Plan 182

Business Plan Sweat Equity Exit Strategy Intellectual Property 182

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 22, 2010

Quantify existing skin-in-the-game, by insiders and outsiders, including sweat equity and capital. Exit strategy. For a family business, don’t project an exit. Otherwise, identify your preferred exit strategy, including specific candidates for merger or sale, and timeframe. Funding requirements.

Business Plan 186

Business Plan Exit Strategy Sweat Equity Intellectual Property 186

www.virtuosimedia.com

MARCH 8, 2012

It’s simply an untenable situation to expect the technical co-founder to assume the full burden of risk through sweat equity. Briefly, here are some contract points you may want to consider for incorporation: The division of share equity and dividend payout. Exit strategies. Titles and responsibilities.

Technical Cofounder 41

Technical Cofounder Cofounder Technical Review NDA 41