Up and Running

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

Investors want to hear about your first customers, other investments put into the company (including your own sweat equity), key media placement, signed letters of intent (LOI) to purchase/partner, product and customer milestones , key hires, and so on. is our customer acquisition cost (CAC). what they know about your industry.

Sweat Equity 122

Sweat Equity Churn Rate Elevator Pitch Forecast 122

ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 18, 2012

CoFoundersLab makes matches (for free) via its online platform or through in-person Meetups. You need the right personality match to get through the dark days together. LESONSKY : Then why not go it alone and hire the skills you need? Don’t worry about defining equity until you understand what each co-founder does.

Cofounder 150

Cofounder Founder St. Louis Sweat Equity 150

Up and Running

JANUARY 24, 2014

Investors want to hear about your first customers, other investments put into the company (including your own sweat equity), key media placement, signed letters of intent (LOI) to purchase/partner, product and customer milestones, key hires, etc. It always surprises me how frequently this is left out of pitches.

Sweat Equity 138

Sweat Equity Churn Rate Forecast Business Model 138

ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 18, 2012

CoFoundersLab makes matches (for free) via its online platform or through in-person Meetups. You need the right personality match to get through the dark days together. LESONSKY : Then why not go it alone and hire the skills you need? Don’t worry about defining equity until you understand what each co-founder does.

Cofounder 110

Cofounder Founder St. Louis Sweat Equity 110

ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

Gadea leveraged his connections in Silicon Valley to seed viral distribution of the product, which, in turn, generated the revenue to hire engineers and scale the company. is a SaaS tool that companies can use to assess engineers before they hire them. spent $1k on their MVP. Qualified.io Vested Technology spent $17k on their MVP.

Sweat Equity 78

Sweat Equity Software Review Vesting Cofounder 78

ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

Gadea leveraged his connections in Silicon Valley to seed viral distribution of the product, which, in turn, generated the revenue to hire engineers and scale the company. is a SaaS tool that companies can use to assess engineers before they hire them. spent $1k on their MVP. Qualified.io Vested Technology spent $17k on their MVP.

Sweat Equity 50

Sweat Equity Software Review Vesting Cofounder 50

philipsmith.typepad.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

While there have been times in the last dozen or so years, usually during times of venture capital excess, that cash to founders, early-stage executives and other key employees has matched regular market compensation (still with the upside of the equity), this is not true in the vast majority in the start-up game. Post another comment.

Silicon Valley 40

Silicon Valley Equity Technical Review Recapitalization 40