Gust

DECEMBER 20, 2012

There is no specific ratio between “sweat equity” and cash in a venture, and that’s actually not a good way to think about the issue. You might have created that value by slaving 18 hours a day, seven days a week for five years (in which case the value of the sweat equity is $8.70

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 20, 2016

Even if your product is a technological marvel, I look for balanced strength on the team in finance, marketing and operations. Investors all know that the startup road is long and hard, so they look for people who have put and will continue to put “skin in the game” -- time, sweat equity, and money.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 1, 2021

Aspiring entrepreneurs ask me why their great idea hasn’t sold; they talk about it endlessly, and they expect others to do the development, finance, and marketing work for them. Those at the other extreme don’t look up from the grindstone long enough to notice whether all their work is producing sweat equity or just sweat.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 11, 2023

That’s why all those so-called million dollar ideas I hear about as an investor don’t get me excited, and entrepreneurs find that working twenty hours a day often generates nothing more than sweat, instead of the desired sweat equity. Even with the perfect product, your customers won’t even know you exist without marketing.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

With one of the many new 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.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 2, 2013

The hot term these days is “viral marketing”, meaning we won’t do any marketing, but our product is so great that everyone will know about us anyway by word of mouth and through Internet social networks. Investors like laser focus on a market-need causing real pain. It’s the market, stupid.” We have no competitors.”

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Sweat Equity Intellectual Property Entrepreneur Viral 277

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

The average amount per startup has been $23,000, usually in the form of a convertible loan, rather than an equity investment. Rather than set a fixed repayment schedule, tie investment payoffs to a percentage of new product revenue, or a plan to convert the debt to equity.

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Up and Running

FEBRUARY 6, 2017

One of the first things to go, in most budgets, is marketing. After all, sweat equity can make up for a trim marketing budget, but it would be hard to make up for cuts in product development and customer service without sacrificing customer experience. Resources for the first-time, do-it-yourself online marketer.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 30, 2013

For a business, you must define the absolute minimum features you need to satisfy the customer problem, and test it in the market. Investors like to see that you have committed personal funds as well as “sweat equity,” and they like to see real progress at this level. Show personal investment.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 16, 2020

That’s why all those so-called million dollar ideas I hear about as an investor don’t get me excited, and entrepreneurs find that working twenty hours a day often generates nothing more than sweat, instead of the desired sweat equity. Even with the perfect product, your customers won’t even know you exist without marketing.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 14, 2022

You really need a partner who is complementary, and can tackle the operational roles, like marketing, finance, and sales. I’ll put in the money, if you put in the sweat equity.” and the answer better not be ambiguous. “We We are so alike, we finish each other’s sentences.” Most startups can’t afford that.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 24, 2012

It’s the market, stupid.” There is no substitute for understanding the market, and sizing the opportunity, before you climb out on a limb. “If In most cases, viral marketing only begins to work after you prime the pump with several million in real marketing over a couple of years. If we build it, they will come.”

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

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. Pixlee is a visual-marketing platform that helps companies connect with influencers. million in revenue a year. . Pixlee spent $40k on their MVP.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 31, 2012

For a business, you must define the absolute minimum features you need to satisfy the customer problem, and test it in the market. Investors like to see that you have committed personal funds as well as “sweat equity,” and they like to see real progress at this level. Show personal investment.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 18, 2020

With one of the many new 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.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 16, 2016

I’m not recommending that you saturate your discussions with lingo, but responding with a blank stare once-too-often won’t convince anyone that you can build the next world-changing business or outpace the market. Sweat equity. Growth-hacking” marketing. It’s a term of respect and endearment.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 24, 2011

The hot term these days is “viral marketing”, meaning we won’t do any marketing, but our product is so great that everyone will know about us anyway by word of mouth and through Internet social networks. Investors like laser focus on a market-need causing real pain. It’s the market, stupid.” We have no competitors.”

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 11, 2021

The average amount per startup has been $23,000, usually in the form of a convertible loan, rather than an equity investment. Rather than set a fixed repayment schedule, tie investment payoffs to a percentage of new product revenue, or a plan to convert the debt to equity.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 17, 2011

For a business, you must define the absolute minimum features you need to satisfy the customer problem, and test it in the market. Investors like to see that you have committed personal funds as well as “sweat equity,” and they like to see real progress at this level. Show personal investment.

Intellectual Property 253

Intellectual Property Sweat Equity CTO Hire Fractional CTO 253

ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

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. Pixlee is a visual-marketing platform that helps companies connect with influencers. million in revenue a year. . Pixlee spent $40k on their MVP.

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Sweat Equity Software Review Vesting Cofounder 50

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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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 22, 2010

For a business, you must define the absolute minimum features you need to satisfy the customer problem, and test it in the market. Investors like to see that you have committed personal funds as well as “sweat equity,” and they like to see real progress at this level. Show personal investment.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 23, 2017

Also, determine the market demand to make sure what you’re doing is sustainable. In this manner, you’ll be sharing the workload and dividing up the sweat equity, which comes with bootstrapping, whilst maintaining better control over your strategic direction.

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Up and Running

NOVEMBER 20, 2018

If you need to learn more about digital marketing, take an online class—just take small steps toward the things that seem overwhelming. Much has changed since Edison’s day, but sweat equity is still the most effective kind of startup capital. You don’t have to solve everything all in one day. Practical ways to get started.

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socialmatchbox.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

These days sales, marketing and PR people seem to grow on trees. If they charge well above the market average then they are usually either greedy or motivated to do something on their own that you are basically funding. You are probably wondering how do I know if they are asking for more than the market rate or not?

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 24, 2010

It’s the market, stupid.” There is no substitute for understanding the market, and sizing the opportunity, before you climb out on a limb. “If In most cases, viral marketing only begins to work after you prime the pump with several million in real marketing over a couple of years. If we build it, they will come.”

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 19, 2011

Good listener, take in information, • Have pulse on what the market wants (hard to train that) cannot take this from customers only. If you need money to even hire a developer [means you cannot even excite one person to put in some sweat equity – not a good sign about your ability to motivate people.].

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 10, 2019

You really need a partner who is complementary, and can tackle the operational roles, like marketing, finance, and sales. I’ll put in the money, if you put in the sweat equity.” and the answer better not be ambiguous. “We We are so alike, we finish each other’s sentences.” Most startups can’t afford that.

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David Teten

MARCH 9, 2021

One or more of our past coworkers are joining us in this new business, and working for sweat equity.”. We’re a great fit for this market, because ” . If we meet you over a period of a month, we’ll notice what happens during that month. We hired a coach to help make us a world-class team.” . Current status .

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ReadWriteStart

DECEMBER 29, 2010

The market is larger, less fragmented, the consumers are earlier adopters. Unsurprisingly, this seems to weed out the less passionate people, while encouraging others to put in sweat equity in their own ideas. Foreign markets seem to be an afterthought, space for local startups and copycats. Access to Finance.

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Austin Startup

JUNE 26, 2019

While the journey of JuiceBox Hero is coming to a close, we know that our small but mighty team’s commitment to innovation for women, families, and under-represented markets is far from over. The Skinny: Two years ago I embarked on a mission to bring to market a modern way for parents to find daycares and preschools. We did that?—?and

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The Startup Magazine

JANUARY 10, 2023

The enhanced water market is growing as customers are more and more frequently seeking healthier flavored beverages over those that are sugar-filled and artificially flavored. Lemon Perfect’s success comes at a price: Hufnagel and his employees are willing to pay with sweat equity. It works. “We That drives me.”.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 18, 2013

Aspiring entrepreneurs ask me why their great idea hasn’t sold; they talk about it endlessly, and they expect others to do the development, finance, and marketing work for them. Those at the other extreme don’t look up from the grindstone long enough to notice whether all their work is producing sweat equity or just sweat.

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Gust

MAY 24, 2012

Some commentators have suggested this is the wave of the future, signifying a shift in the balance of power from investors to founders of the relatively small, elite group of growth companies that make it to public markets. Nevertheless, these preferences aren’t intended to last forever.

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Austin Startup

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

For startup founders, it’s never too early to start thinking about putting together a target market advisory board. The target market advisory board should consist of 2–4 industry veterans who have connections to C-level execs and VPs in your target market. Target market advisors can help add to your credibility.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 29, 2012

Aspiring entrepreneurs ask me why their great idea hasn’t sold; they talk about it endlessly, and they expect others to do the development, finance, and marketing work for them. Those at the other extreme don’t look up from the grindstone long enough to notice whether all their work is producing sweat equity or just sweat.

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Sweat Equity Intellectual Property Entrepreneur Viral 256

YoungUpstarts

MAY 16, 2018

Commit to plowing as much sweat equity as you can muster into your eventual choice. When [Gull Harbour Marina] came on the market, we jumped at the opportunity,” says Manitoba-based hospitality entrepreneur David Janeson , whose lakefront inn has earned rave reviews since its 2016-17 renovation. Hold Out for the Ideal Setting.

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