The Startup Toolkit

AUGUST 29, 2012

Version 1 is funded through sweat, not cash. You need to find someone willing to put in sweat equity, or to at least join as a full-on part of the team with a bit of a salary and a bit of an equity stake. I’m running a 40 quid, full-day workshop on the foundations of lean startup strategy with Sal Virani.

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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. The Lean Startup by Erik Reis. Maternova’s business model is breaking new ground, and co-founders Meg and Allyson had to invest a lot of time simply laying the foundation for something that has never been done before.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 2, 2011

A lean image is appreciated. Businesses can be built on sweat equity. New desks and computers are expensive, but second-hand stores and Craigslist are great sources for used equipment and supplies. A box of business cards and a card table in your spare bedroom may be all you need. The rest can come later.

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Up and Running

JULY 10, 2018

Consider writing a Lean Plan , or an abbreviated business plan to help you think through the most important considerations. Here’s a free Lean Planning template you can use to get started. You can do it in less than an hour, and you can always spend more time on certain components of the business plan if you need or want to.

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Up and Running

AUGUST 19, 2014

Though that level of restraint may mean living quite “lean” in your personal life for a while, doing so provides an opportunity to establish solid footing for your business as early as possible, so that you have at least one year to learn from the trends and sales cycles that will emerge once you’re past “break even.” .”

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BeyondVC

APRIL 15, 2011

And with that, it was clear to see how much these startups could accomplish with so little capital and just sweat equity. Real technical experience-what everyone of these startups had in-common was a strong core team of technical founders, rather than business folks outsouring development.

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BeyondVC

APRIL 15, 2011

And with that, it was clear to see how much these startups could accomplish with so little capital and just sweat equity. Real technical experience-what everyone of these startups had in-common was a strong core team of technical founders, rather than business folks outsouring development.

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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. Lean Marketing: Public Relations strategies for small businesses and startups. Branding irons photo, “Iron Sky” by Jeff Stvan.

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Up and Running

APRIL 10, 2019

When you read other articles, they will talk about relying on personal income or savings, and they talk about sweat equity. It’s strategic planning or Lean Business Planning. A dictionary definition will tell you that it’s to get oneself into or out of a situation using existing resources. Start small but plan for growth.

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Scott Edward Walker

JUNE 23, 2011

Indeed, in a world of easy access to online documents, it is often this legal compliance which is overlooked by founders, as they attempt to stay “lean” and “scrappy” (and sometimes even handle the legal work themselves or through a web service).

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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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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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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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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. Mark Cuban has famously said, “Sweat equity is the best startup capital.” That’s what these questions are for. Let’s dive in! Why do you want to start a business?

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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.”.

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www.chubbybrain.com

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

Don’t exacerbate the issue by needing to figure out how to deal with a 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.

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