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What is Sweat Equity Worth?

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Business & Small Business. Entrepreneur Homepage Startups Starting a Business Home How-To Guides Startup Basics Business Ideas Business Planning Startup Financing Success Stories Home-Based Business Starting a Business Play Video How to Take a New Product from Just an Idea to a Business (Video).

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Equity-Only CTO and Equity-Only Developers

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Understand where they were in terms of being able to pay or was this equity-only (sweat equity only). Unless you are a co-founder of the startup, a developer is probably not going to do all that well working on sweat equity alone. How To Find A Programmer To Build Your Startup Idea Another option is sweat equity.

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The Smartest Entrepreneurs Bootstrap Their Startup

Startup Professionals Musings

Yet, according to many sources , over 90 percent of all businesses are started and grown with no equity financing, and many others would have been better off without it. According to the book, “ Small Business, Big Vision ,” by self-made entrepreneurs Adam and Matthew Toren, it’s really a question of need versus want.

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Don’t Look For Investors for All the Wrong Reasons

Startup Professionals Musings

Yet, according to many sources , over 90 percent of all businesses are started and grown with no equity financing, and many others would have been better off without it. According to the book, “ Small Business, Big Vision ,” by self-made entrepreneurs Adam and Matthew Toren, it’s really a question of need versus want.

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Most Entrepreneurs Should Never Bring On Investors

Startup Professionals Musings

Yet, according to many sources , over 90 percent of all businesses are started and grown with no equity financing, and many others would have been better off without it. According to a new book, “ Small Business, Big Vision ,” by self-made entrepreneurs Adam and Matthew Toren, it’s really a question of need versus want.

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The Smartest Entrepreneurs Bootstrap Their Startup

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Yet, according to many sources , over 90 percent of all businesses are started and grown with no equity financing, and many others would have been better off without it. According to the book, “ Small Business, Big Vision ,” by self-made entrepreneurs Adam and Matthew Toren, it’s really a question of need versus want.

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How To Launch a Startup and Avoid Ending-up in Jail

Scott Edward Walker

As I discussed in my recent post “ How To Hire a Superstar Engineer for Your Startup ,” startups may not give employees “sweat equity” in lieu of any ongoing cash payment/salary; nor may startups defer wages and other compensation. And be forewarned: governmental audits of small businesses are clearly on the rise.