ReadWriteStart

JANUARY 20, 2020

Unfortunately, however, our love affair with startups is unfounded, especially as it relates to those who may be looking to provide, market to or target their product/service to the startup segment. We wish we were the founders, experiencing this testosterone-fueled melodrama of success. Why We Are In Love With Startups? Seller beware.

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www.drowningamerican.com

JUNE 22, 2012

Next → How we Hire for Sweat Equity (Part 2)… Posted on April 7, 2011 by Travis Biziorek. Any reasonable founder salary I pay myself (I’m ball-parking $70k… maybe a bit less) will already be a higher salary than I’ve ever earned in my life. equity in the company. Skip to primary content.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 20, 2016

Thus the top priority of every entrepreneur who wants funding should be to build and highlight their “dream team” of co-founders, executives and advisers, to attract the biggest and best investors. Even if your product is a technological marvel, I look for balanced strength on the team in finance, marketing and operations.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 23, 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. Your company has outgrown you.

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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

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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Technical Review Due Diligence Sweat Equity Burn Rate 120

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. Your company has outgrown you.

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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. Your company has outgrown you.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 16, 2016

This term refers to an initial venture-capital investment, often wrongly sought to seed early product development. Ron Conway , of SV Angels, and Reid Hoffman , LinkedIn's founder, are names often mentioned in this category. Sweat equity. Frothy is good for entrepreneurs. Seed-round investment. Deep-dive meeting.

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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. Your company has outgrown you.

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Bootstrapping Sweat Equity Entrepreneur Technical Review 183

YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 23, 2017

Deciding whether to increase money or trade equity in the business for much needed assistance, could be a tough call. I raised money and traded equity, but with my venture, I had to make one of the toughest decisions, to build it with some assistance of co-founders. Find the right co-founders.

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Up and Running

NOVEMBER 20, 2018

First-time entrepreneurs and small business founders often feel anxious when they think about all the factors that play into getting their idea off the ground. Tim Berry, the founder of Palo Alto Software and Bplans, says there is no better starting point than looking in the mirror. But where to begin? Ask yourself why.

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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

JANUARY 20, 2014

You know how to bootstrap a business, build it from nothing, and burn sweat-equity for long hours to push your dreams to reality. How did you make your product manager shine in the last meeting? business entrepreneur founder leadership startup' Yes, you are a fascinating person. Marty Zwilling.

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Austin Startup

JULY 23, 2010

No, not related to the famous Wendy’s founder.) But, the other way Dave has found to add a dimension of his software product development and startup experience into the mix is through the development of the web service, 1TeamWeb. My next door neighbor is Dave Thomas. (No,

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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? 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.

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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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Up and Running

JUNE 23, 2015

Meg Wirth and Allyson Cote, founders of Maternova. I was fortunate enough to speak with co-founder Allyson Cote, and hear the Maternova story, as well as some of its exciting plans for the future. “It took an enormous investment of sweat equity on both our parts,” Allyson admits.

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The Startup Toolkit

AUGUST 29, 2012

If you want funding, don’t pay freelancers (or agencies) to have your first product version built. This trap is easy to fall into because investors truthfully claim that they need to see a product before they can invest. Idea + product - team = Nothing. Version 1 is funded through sweat, not cash.

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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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Business Plan Blog

NOVEMBER 15, 2013

Milestones That Friends, Family, and Founders Care About Before Investing. You will need demonstrate the product, its advantages, who the market is, how the business will run, capital requirements, and financials demonstrating the financial model. If your product is not developed, you will need some sort of mockup.

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Austin Startup

JANUARY 30, 2020

The relationship between a founder and their startup is a unique one?—?we’re We made it from nothing, built it up with sweat equity, do everything in our means to make this thing grow, and wait to see what happens. 2) Offer a new flavor of the product: we tested delivering our product via a different operational flow.

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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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Due Diligence Sweat Equity Intellectual Property Burn Rate 174

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 13, 2016

Investors are looking for a concise description of your product or service without technical jargon or fuzzy marketing terms with value quantified in customer terms. How big is the funding request, and how much equity will you give? Quantify founder investments, both cash and sweat-equity.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 10, 2016

by Anand Srinivasan, founder of LeadJoint.com. The product could be anything that you are passionate about – cars, real estate, furniture and even books. 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

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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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

MARCH 5, 2010

This is a guest post by Mike Schoeffler, founder of iPhone running application Roadbud. But take this too far and your productivity drops off the cliff. As founder of a run/bike app startup, I can write off my workouts. However, I also know firsthand that exercise increases total productivity.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 12, 2016

by Anand Srinivasan, founder of LeadJoint.com. Founders need to work on a ‘compartmentalization strategy’ that breaks down their business dream into small components that can be smaller business ideas by themselves. In the early stages of business, sweat equity can often be a good substitute for cash.

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femgineer.com

JULY 18, 2010

If you’re a founder who is still trying to grasp the product roadmap and create a company vision its probably not a good time to hire an engineer. There are a lot of engineers out there who have been burned by founders who pull and push them in a variety of directions. Sweat equity or salary?

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Up and Running

DECEMBER 23, 2019

Sweat Equity. “I As you progress and look at perfecting a particular product you’ll need to seek funding. The only way to reliably do this and maintain ownership of the product is to seek out friends and family first.” – Nicole Munoz , Nicole Munoz Consulting Inc. Local Business Plan Competitions.

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The Equity Kicker

SEPTEMBER 2, 2015

. – The essential capabilities in the first months are product design and development. – Don’t compromise on quality for co-founders and other permanent decisions. And that includes the choice of co-founder. Yet founders want to move fast and there is an inevitable tension between speed and quality.

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Austin Startup

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

For startup founders, it’s never too early to start thinking about putting together a target market advisory board. As founders, your job includes selling product to customers, stock to investors, and opportunity to employees. You might consider starting with an offer to invest at a low valuation before discussing sweat equity.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 2, 2011

By John Williams Fast Company magazine recently reported that PayPal founder Paul Thiel is giving away $100,000 to twenty-four young men and women to finance startup businesses. Businesses can be built on sweat equity. The caveat is that these young entrepreneurs have to drop out of college to do it.

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 24, 2019

Transcript of How to Turn Your Product Idea Into a Business written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. She is the co-founder and CEO of the Grommet and author of How We Make Stuff Now. Eastern we launch and reveal the story of one innovative manufactured product from a small business. Back to Podcast. Transcript.

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Up and Running

MAY 30, 2013

Tim Berry, President and founder of Palo Alto Software, says there is no better starting point than looking in the mirror. Take note of the goals you tend to put off and the productive tasks you habitually avoid. Much has changed since Edison’s day, but sweat equity is still the most effective kind of startup capital.

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Up and Running

JUNE 7, 2013

In the startup world, you hear the title “co-founder” a lot more than “founder.” In hindsight, I look back and all of the ones which were successful had one common trait — they each had only one founder: me. Jealous of the equity pie being split in three equal pieces, the other two decided to vote me out. Why is this?

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BeyondVC

APRIL 15, 2011

Look, New York had to start from scratch but 15 years later what makes this different is that we can see a much better result-the same energy combined with real operating and entrepreneurial chops, real succceses and failures, real IPOs and multi-hundred million dollar exits, and a focus on the entrepreneur and product, not on the spreadsheet.

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