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SmartHost of New York Wins the StartupBus 2014 Competition

SiliconHills

Sweat equity is the best startup capital” – Mark Cuban A banner bearing Cuban’s quote hung on the wall at Rackspace’s event center Thursday as it hosted its third annual StartupBus event featuring teams from all over the country and Mexico.

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Carving Out Your Own Slice Of Heaven: 6 Ideas For Budding Hospitality Entrepreneurs

YoungUpstarts

Commit to plowing as much sweat equity as you can muster into your eventual choice. For a whole host of reasons not worth getting into here, many entrepreneurs look down on franchisees. Look for High-Potential Properties. Conserve capital by acquiring an existing hotel. Hold Out for the Ideal Setting.

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Crush It! An Evening with Gary V on Sept 15

Austin Startup

Each year Texchange hosts one big blockbuster event with a fantastic speaker that is open to the public (other events are for members only). Gary is now also an angel investor in various startups, offering sweat equity to the projects he supports in addition to financial investments.

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7 Practical and Powerful Tips To Accelerate Online Networking

Duct Tape Marketing

WordPress, Magento, spree) and fully hosted website options (SquareSpace, Wix, Virb, WordPress.com) are available. So blogging is a bit like sweat equity: you need to make sure you can glean a return in ways that are not directly deposited in your bank account. Set a networking goal (i.e. at specific companies, industries etc.).

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10 Entrepreneurs Share What Their Favorite Part of Running a Business Is

Hearpreneur

All the sweat equity that comes with being an entrepreneur is all worth it when you see your business grow into the vision you had when you started. Thanks to Naqi Rizvi, Host & Soft. Growing my business, is seeing hard work resulting in success. This is my favorite part of my business.

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How to bootstrap a Startup with less than $10k

www.thestartup.eu

Hosting: pay-as-you-go cloud servers, mostly free in the beginning. Sweat Equity: Juliette and Marco put in a bit of work during weekends as project managers, designers, developers, sysadmins, etc. Even with company registration and some serious hosting for the first few months you can still make it under $10K at the beginning.

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Dear Avinash: Search / SEO Metrics & Analytics Questions + Answers

Occam's Razor

But if you are willing to put in a little bit of sweat equity then you'll stand miles apart from your SEO competitors. Why not host a user forum on your website for current and future customers to come together and share their thoughts / ideas / complaints / rave about your competitors (scared?)? I know we look for short cuts.