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.

Marketing 79

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

For this article, we asked 14 SaaS CEOs a simple question: “How much did you spend on your MVP before you had your first dollar of revenue?”. 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.

Sweat Equity 78

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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.

Equity 40

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

For this article, we asked 14 SaaS CEOs a simple question: “How much did you spend on your MVP before you had your first dollar of revenue?”. 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.

Sweat Equity 50

Sweat Equity Software Review Vesting Cofounder 50

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. With this capital, the company propels itself to $50 million+ in revenues, and to either a sale to a strategic acquirer or to an initial public offering. There are a lot of dark, hard days.

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www.virtuosimedia.com

MARCH 8, 2012

If the idea was reliant on ad revenue for profit, it quickly becomes apparent that there will be no incoming money at all. 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.

Technical Cofounder 41

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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 committed myself to working even harder and generating more revenue compared to what we were generating.

Entrepreneur 48

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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. I think it’s difficult, if not impossible, to value a pre-revenue company with any reasonable accuracy. GrasshopperHerder.com.

Sweat Equity 41

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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. You created what appears to be a cool product, but without a revenue model, you don’t really have a bootstrap.

Bootstrapping 49

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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.”.

Cofounder 89

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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? The alternative is to offer them equity in your company.

Technical Review 40

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www.chubbybrain.com

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

spent $20 million to get back to the same revenue that I had when I was CEO. created a vastly higher cost structure; I had 80 people mostly on base salaries under $100,000 and was bringing in revenue at the rate of $20 million annually. .”). Post-Mortem Title : My eHarmony for Hiring Failure. During this year they.

Software Review 79

Software Review Startup Technical Review Vesting 79

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.

Programming 40

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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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