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. Now you know.

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Business Plan Blog

NOVEMBER 15, 2013

Milestones That Friends, Family, and Founders Care About Before Investing. Investors at any stage like to see that you have committed personal funds in addition to sweat equity. However, you may be able to secure letters of intent, customer surveys, or even customer endorsements based on mockups that you have shown them.

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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. Now you know.

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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. Now you know.

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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. For most of us, though, the idea of investors or even securing financing may as well go the way of the corporate ladder. Become a compelling story yourself.

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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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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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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. A secure and persevering spirit will be an essential factor in your success. Much has changed since Edison’s day, but sweat equity is still the most effective kind of startup capital.

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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. And they hire very aggressive securities attorneys to represent their interests. The typical wisdom regarding the appropriate financing course for a new company goes as follows: 1.

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www.virtuosimedia.com

MARCH 8, 2012

Internet Security. This article should also serve as a starting guide for programmers who are approached about becoming technical co-founders. It’s simply an untenable situation to expect the technical co-founder to assume the full burden of risk through sweat equity. XML Tutorials. Programming Tools.

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grasshopperherder.com

FEBRUARY 19, 2011

Q: “When will you have funding secured?&# 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. Names redacted.)

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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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Gust

MAY 24, 2012

Some commentators have suggested this is the wave of the future, signifying a shift in the balance of power from investors to founders of the relatively small, elite group of growth companies that make it to public markets. Options and warrants, when issued, are also typically exercisable for shares of Common Stock.

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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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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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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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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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sivers.org

JUNE 25, 2010

Programmers, and certainly not the visionary founders, are the most qualified for that task. #6 Im a UX and front end designer bootstrapping my own products with pure sweat equity at night but always looking for someone else to partner with(engineer/programmer)to bring these ideas life. Co-founders and outsourcing work the same.

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