Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 10, 2016

Enthusiastic startup founders may try to deflect or minimize these questions in true media-training style, so you need to be patient, calm, and persistent to get the whole story. 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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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 16, 2016

Sweat equity. This unpaid work component is sized in dollars, added to any funds contributed, to represent the total contribution of a founding partner and converted to an equity ownership percentage in a new startup. This term is used to describe non-traditional ways to incent growth such as social-media and viral marketing.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 8, 2015

Enthusiastic startup founders may try to deflect or minimize these questions in true media-training style, so you need to be patient, calm, and persistent to get the whole story. 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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Up and Running

FEBRUARY 6, 2017

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. Create a list of influencers you trust, and subscribe to their RSS and social media feeds. Yep, you Google, Bing, or Yahoo it.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 19, 2011

o Their strong skill was online media buying and optimization – they rarely would do CPA deals – mostly buying CPM. As internet crashed media became cheaper so they bought more and their tracking and analysis became really good so they did better. Later they became big business in Financial services lead-gen.

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socialmatchbox.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Another option is sweat equity. It is important to realize that most people who are willing to work for sweat equity are not a) the best, b) in demand, and c) going to put their heart and soul into your project. Motivation to work for sweat equity is something else that founders tend to take for granted.

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ReadWriteStart

DECEMBER 29, 2010

Unsurprisingly, this seems to weed out the less passionate people, while encouraging others to put in sweat equity in their own ideas. The last thing you want when you launch is to tailor to several languages, cultural differences, distribution channels and small blogs and other media. Access to Finance.

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Austin Startup

JUNE 26, 2019

Our venture was selected for competitive accelerator spots & recognition from media and mentors from Austin, Chicago and Silicon Valley to work on this problem and capture the value its solution provided. However, we also discovered key challenges we could not overcome with the capital and window of our team.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 2, 2016

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. Appreciate the media accolades and peer success feedback.

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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. Use multiple social-media channels, blogging, email and voicemail to build the same image and responsiveness as larger competitors.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 16, 2015

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. Appreciate the media accolades and peer success feedback.

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Up and Running

JUNE 23, 2015

“It took an enormous investment of sweat equity on both our parts,” Allyson admits. Allyson attributes part of their large reach to Maternova’s strong social media presence, which she says is essential to their marketing strategy. Social media. Social media is our primary marketing channel,” Cote says.

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Up and Running

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

Investors want to hear about your first customers, other investments put into the company (including your own sweat equity), key media placement, signed letters of intent (LOI) to purchase/partner, product and customer milestones , key hires, and so on. It always surprises me how frequently this is left out of pitches.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 2, 2011

Print advertising is expensive, but social media is free. Businesses can be built on sweat equity. Your mortgage and grocery bill depend on it. You can keep overhead low. You may want office space outside of your home, but you may not need it to start. Fancy websites are expensive, but blogs and Facebook pages are free.

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Up and Running

JULY 10, 2018

While it’s to be expected that you’re going to put a lot of time and sweat equity into starting a business, make sure you’re also carving out time for your family. Turn off notifications from social media apps and designate a time or several times throughout the day that you intentionally log on to your social media to catch up.

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crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 25, 2012

And for those of you who believe that branding requires a huge investment in media and advertising, you are probably thinking about this in the wrong way. Many small businesses have turned to a DIY approach to branding and have leveraged the social media as the foundation for their efforts. Build culture. Let it all hang out !

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philipsmith.typepad.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

It usually takes one bad experience for people to understand that working for sweat equity is a bit 'stinky' - fool me once, shame on you, but fool me twice, shame on me. That's why it makes sense to get some combination of cash/deferred cash and equity, if you can. Twitter Updates. follow me on Twitter.

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Austin Startup

SEPTEMBER 1, 2010

Gary has grown his retail wine website business from $4M to $60M in the past 10 years, largely by using social media marketing. The consulting role agreed with him, and in 2009 Gary and his brother AJ co-founded Vayner Media , a boutique agency that works with personal brands, consumer brands, and startups.

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Up and Running

JANUARY 24, 2014

Investors want to hear about your first customers, other investments put into the company (including your own sweat equity), key media placement, signed letters of intent (LOI) to purchase/partner, product and customer milestones, key hires, etc. It always surprises me how frequently this is left out of pitches.

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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.

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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.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 6, 2013

Enable social sharing on all posts and post not only on your blog but also on your social media channels. 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. Make your headline memorable but not clichéd. This is where it gets tricky.

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www.virtuosimedia.com

MARCH 8, 2012

About Virtuosi Media. Social Media. It’s simply an untenable situation to expect the technical co-founder to assume the full burden of risk through sweat equity. Copyright 2011 Virtuosi Media Inc. -->. Our Newsletters Contact Us. Our Services. Our Vision. Contact Us. Corporate Blog. About Our Website.

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Occam's Razor

NOVEMBER 24, 2009

Twitter is amongst new media channels that are challenging how we communicate, with whom we communicate and perhaps most fundamentally how we (Marketers) influence people. Sadly execution and analysis of these new social media channels has been hobbled by old world thinking. My new book Web Analytics 2.0 Why be fake?

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Up and Running

JUNE 26, 2017

Mark Cuban has famously said, “Sweat equity is the best startup capital.” The answer might be through conversations at trade shows, sales videos, search engine or social media marketing, creating content, word of mouth, or any number of options! Who do you know that can help you?

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infochachkie.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Very interesting article, at my Firm we share many of your insights, starting by performance based compensation (often linked to sweat equity). you know of anyone in the social media marketplace that might be able to help? Interview: Mark Douglas, President & CEO, SteelHouse Media. |. link] Luis Rivera. Got it now.

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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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www.thestartup.eu

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Tipsandtrip was born from an idea of social media consultant Juliette Bellavita and Blogo.it Sweat Equity: Juliette and Marco put in a bit of work during weekends as project managers, designers, developers, sysadmins, etc. CEO Marco Magnocavallo. How did they do it? MyGengo.com and Tolingo.de. Total cost: $100.

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 24, 2019

All the important SEO tools that you need for paid traffic, social media, PR, and of course SEO. Jules Pieri: I will say social media was super important to me in starting a business. But assuming without a big budget it’s going to be more about sweat equity and putting in the time to create great content.

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Gust

MAY 24, 2012

This is nothing new; long favored by family-controlled media empires such as Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation , among Internet firms alone, Google took a dual-class approach when going public in 2004. Nevertheless, these preferences aren’t intended to last forever.

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