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

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

In fact, most of the rich entrepreneurs you know actively turned away early equity proposals. 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. Need expensive resources up front.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

In fact, most of the rich entrepreneurs you know actively turned away early equity proposals. 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. Need expensive resources up front.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 8, 2015

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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Gust

DECEMBER 15, 2013

In fact, most of the rich entrepreneurs you know actively turned away early equity proposals. 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. Need expensive resources up front.

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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. Founders seem to take for granted exactly how in demand a good programmer is. Simultaneously, founders tend to take for granted how in demand bad programmers are too. Another option is sweat equity.

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David Teten

MARCH 9, 2021

We love founder(s) who can say any of the following: Mindset . Being a founder is not for the faint of heart. We hired a coach to help make us a world-class team.” . “We We hired a coach to help make us a world-class team.” . One of our past colleagues / managers is investing.”. “We Examples: _.” Experience .

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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. These are the questions that get past the hype of a founder “vision to change the world,” and into the realm of real business strengths, weaknesses, and current health.

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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. These are the questions that get past the hype of a founder “vision to change the world,” and into the realm of real business strengths, weaknesses, and current health.

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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. These are the questions that get past the hype of a founder “vision to change the world,” and into the realm of real business strengths, weaknesses, and current health.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 10, 2016

by Anand Srinivasan, founder of LeadJoint.com. 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. But starting your own business does not come easy.

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discuss.joelonsoftware.com

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

where I can learn about how to build a sweat equity team? where I can learn about how to build a sweat equity team? Rather, it is a proposal for sweat-equity investors. So, yes, sweat equity partners need to have a degree of influence in the company, commensurate with their skills and contributions.

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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. These are the questions that get past the hype of a founder “vision to change the world,” and into the realm of real business strengths, weaknesses, and current health.

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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. These are the questions that get past the hype of a founder "vision to change the world,” and into the realm of real business strengths, weaknesses, and current health.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

Mike Arsenault and his two co-founders—all with technical backgrounds—built their MVP while working full time for other SaaS companies. “We 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.

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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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Scott Edward Walker

JUNE 23, 2011

Introduction I love working with startups – and trying to protect founders and watch their backs. Indeed, in a world of easy access to online documents, it is often this legal compliance which is overlooked by founders, as they attempt to stay “lean” and “scrappy” (and sometimes even handle the legal work themselves or through a web service).

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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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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

Mike Arsenault and his two co-founders—all with technical backgrounds—built their MVP while working full time for other SaaS companies. “We 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.

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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. 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.

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grasshopperherder.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Piercing the Corporate Veil – Sweat Equity Consulting. « Thanks but No Thanks – Things to Avoid When Recruiting Co-founders Why is Cyber Squatter a Bad Word? But much like becoming a co-founder, getting paid sweat equity is essentially becoming an investor in the company. Jan 20 -->.

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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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philipsmith.typepad.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Working for equity only is, realistically, the way most startups have to get going. True founders - the gritty, enthusiastic, determined, change-the-world, passionate types - will do this for a long time, including well after they start paying others on staff some real cash. Looks like you should have hired a CFO a long time ago!

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www.chubbybrain.com

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

After a thorough analysis of those 32 start-up post-mortems, we have determined the common reasons founders gave to compile this list of the top 20 ways to have your startup fail. Work life balance is not something that startup founders often get and so the risk of burning out is high. 13 – Disharmony with Investors/Co-founders.

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www.chubbybrain.com

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

Post-Mortem Title : My eHarmony for Hiring Failure. When a co-founder walks out of a company — as was the case for me — you’ve already been dealt a heavy blow. So, the best way of dealing with this issue is to take a long, long vesting period for all major sweat equity founders. Company : BricaBox.

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Up and Running

JUNE 26, 2017

Our founders thought, “Why is it so hard to actually get ahold of someone at a business? 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?

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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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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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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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