Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 6, 2016

With one of the new free tools and a dose of sweat equity, you can create a website for almost nothing -- and you are on your way to success with ecommerce, your latest invention or personal services. It’s more possible to bootstrap today than a few years ago, as the cost of entry continues to go down.

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Up and Running

JUNE 23, 2015

“It took an enormous investment of sweat equity on both our parts,” Allyson admits. 90 percent of our clients are ordering more than one product at a time, so we’re an aggregator. ” At this point, they have launched products in over 40 countries. We will work until we get it right.”

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Up and Running

JULY 10, 2018

Researching your market and making sure your product or service is something that your target market is willing to pay for are important steps in starting a successful business. Consider writing a Lean Plan , or an abbreviated business plan to help you think through the most important considerations. Avoid analysis paralysis.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 2, 2011

A lean image is appreciated. Businesses can be built on sweat equity. If you will be making a product to sell, be sure the cost of materials is minimal and beyond that it costs only your labor. New desks and computers are expensive, but second-hand stores and Craigslist are great sources for used equipment and supplies.

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BeyondVC

APRIL 15, 2011

Look, New York had to start from scratch but 15 years later what makes this different is that we can see a much better result-the same energy combined with real operating and entrepreneurial chops, real succceses and failures, real IPOs and multi-hundred million dollar exits, and a focus on the entrepreneur and product, not on the spreadsheet.

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BeyondVC

APRIL 15, 2011

Look, New York had to start from scratch but 15 years later what makes this different is that we can see a much better result-the same energy combined with real operating and entrepreneurial chops, real succceses and failures, real IPOs and multi-hundred million dollar exits, and a focus on the entrepreneur and product, not on the spreadsheet.

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crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 25, 2012

SM is cheap, fast, flexible, powerful and, with an investment of sweat equity, can bring meaningful returns to a small business. Take the time to understand your audience and you can start to fathom how and why they will buy your products, or use your services. Branding irons photo, “Iron Sky” by Jeff Stvan.

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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. If you did, why would you be consulting for sweat equity instead of investing as a VC or for yourself? GrasshopperHerder.com.

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Austin Startup

JUNE 26, 2019

As we self-funded on a tiny amount of cash, sweat equity and vision, we also worked in a methodical manner, moving the ball down the field week by week. As a boot-strapped founder aka our biggest investor, one of the things I leaned into uncovering was the unknown. Lean into it. What did our customers think?

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grasshopperherder.com

FEBRUARY 19, 2011

Unless your name is Eric Ries and it’s called “ lean startup.&# (Seriously, you’d be surprised how often this comes up.) …and lastly Don’t Negotiate with Me I’m sure that there are a lot of people who will disagree with me on this because it’s largely a question of corporate culture.

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Up and Running

JUNE 26, 2017

Answering these 11 questions will help your business start off on the right foot and give you a jumpstart on the business planning or Lean Planning process. It’s the polite way of saying “no one wanted our product,” and it accounts for more than four in 10 failed ventures! How will you market and sell your products and services? “If

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www.chubbybrain.com

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

What we didn’t account for was the magnitude of the current correction and the effect that it would have on discretionary luxury spending even within a population that financially could still afford our product. It lacked the audience my product needed to succeed – the early adopters web hackers looking for the next cool toy to play with.

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www.chubbybrain.com

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

But none of them matter if the product is harder to use, since most people simply won’t care enough or get enough benefit from long-term features if a shorter-term alternative is available. deprecated the old feature-complete product (ACS 3.4) before finishing the new product (ACS 4.x); During this year they.

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