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8 Questions You Should Ask Before You Join A Startup

Startup Professionals Musings

The allocation of shares among the founders, and the number and size of outside investments, will tells volumes about the health, stability, and management of the business. Most founders like to talk about their many months or years of sweat-equity , but cash invested is a stronger commitment.

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8 Red Flags To Evaluate Before Pledging To A Startup

Startup Professionals Musings

The allocation of shares among the founders, and the number and size of outside investments, will tells volumes about the health, stability, and management of the business. Most founders like to talk about their many months or years of sweat-equity , but cash invested is a stronger commitment.

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Equity for Early Employees in Early Stage Startups

SoCal CTO

Same Value for Sweat Equity as Investment Dollars? Jason Cohen in How to think about cash vs. equity compensation (definitely read the comments) provides similar kinds of formulas. The key in his approach is that equity compensation should be viewed the same way that you view investment. Stock vests for 4 years.

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Validate The Pedigree Of A Startup Before You Jump

Startup Professionals Musings

The allocation of shares among the founders, and the number and size of outside investments, will tells volumes about the health, stability, and management of the business. Most founders like to talk about their many months or years of sweat-equity , but cash invested is a stronger commitment.

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8 Questions Before You Join Or Invest In A Startup

Startup Professionals Musings

The allocation of shares among the founders, and the number and size of outside investments, will tells volumes about the health, stability, and management of the business. Most founders like to talk about their many months or years of sweat-equity , but cash invested is a stronger commitment.

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Building a sweat equity team

discuss.joelonsoftware.com

where I can learn about how to build a sweat equity team? Rather, it is a proposal for sweat-equity investors. Im confident that this business will be able to compensate these two additional principles along the way, after initial risk of investing their time, and will later reward their vesting with an exit strategy.

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How Much Do SaaS Companies Spend on Their MVPs?

ConversionXL

Running comparative calculations, Arsenault figures that “two senior engineers plus a product manager/marketer for 40 hours per month, times 6 months, would be 720 hours to get to our MVP. Socio is an event-management platform that helps companies launch custom apps for their events. Vested Technology spent $17k on their MVP.