Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 31, 2012

File a provisional patent, register a trademark, and reserve your company domain names. 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. Without revenue, your investors are largely limited to friends, family and fools.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 16, 2016

Ron Conway , of SV Angels, and Reid Hoffman , LinkedIn's founder, are names often mentioned in this category. 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.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 17, 2011

File a provisional patent, register a trademark, and reserve your company domain names. 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. Without revenue, your investors are largely limited to friends, family and fools.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 22, 2010

File a provisional patent, register a trademark, and reserve your company domain names. 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. Without revenue, your investors are largely limited to friends, family and fools.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 19, 2011

Consumers responded to name and concept well, solves real problem, o Took 4 months to build initial prototype. 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.]. Confidence is good, cockiness is not. •

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The Startup Magazine

JANUARY 10, 2023

There are many parallels between coaching and building and running a company, namely around storytelling, recruiting, and sales.”. Lemon Perfect’s success comes at a price: Hufnagel and his employees are willing to pay with sweat equity. Hiring people is similar to recruiting basketball players, Hufnagel says. It works. “We

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 18, 2013

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. Incorporate, register your domain name, trademarks, and copyrights, then patent if possible. Reserve the same names on the leading social networks and blogs.

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discuss.joelonsoftware.com

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

This community works best when people use their real names. where I can learn about how to build a sweat equity team? Rather, it is a proposal for sweat-equity investors. Sweat equity partners are further motivated if they have control over their destiny with the business, especially in their area of the business.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 29, 2012

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. Incorporate, register your domain name, trademarks, and copyrights, then patent if possible. Reserve the same names on the leading social networks and blogs.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 12, 2010

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. Incorporate, register your domain name, trademarks, and copyrights, then patent if possible. Reserve the same names on the leading social networks and blogs.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 13, 2016

Name the three top ones, and present your sustainable advantage as well as barriers to entry for new startups. Quantify founder investments, both cash and sweat-equity. Who are your competitors, and how do you win? Every new offering has competition and alternatives, so it’s not credible to claim no competitors.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 13, 2012

Rest assured that potential investors will ask for names, and place some calls. Quantify existing skin-in-the-game, by insiders and outsiders, including sweat equity and capital. Soft responses from your candidates will definitely kill your credibility. Funding requirements. Include a current valuation estimate.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 28, 2010

You may have less luck getting an equity investor interested, since the financial returns would likely be low. Dear StartupPro, My question is how to treat a valuable domain name during the funding stage? I think you will need it in to get an investor, and keep the equity percent required down to a reasonable level.

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Up and Running

DECEMBER 23, 2019

Sweat Equity. “I I only had a handful of money in my bank to start my business with, which was just enough to get a cheap virtual server and my domain name. You don’t need to be in a big, expensive city to start your company.” – Thomas Griffin , OptinMonster.

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Up and Running

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

Instead, use real names and real customer challenges. 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.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 13, 2011

Rest assured that potential investors will ask for names, and place some calls. Quantify existing skin-in-the-game, by insiders and outsiders, including sweat equity and capital. Soft responses from your candidates will definitely kill your credibility. Funding requirements. Include a current valuation estimate.

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Austin Startup

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

You might consider starting with an offer to invest at a low valuation before discussing sweat equity. The mistake many founders make is to bring on marquee names and compensating them without holding them to specific actions (e.g. It is up to you as the founder to keep your advisors accountable.

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Gust

AUGUST 5, 2012

Rest assured that potential investors will ask for names, and place some calls. Quantify existing skin-in-the-game, by insiders and outsiders, including sweat equity and capital. Soft responses from your candidates will definitely kill your credibility. Funding requirements. Include a current valuation estimate.

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Up and Running

JANUARY 24, 2014

Instead, use real names and real customer challenges. 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. Keep it simple and realistic.

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Austin Startup

SEPTEMBER 1, 2010

Now Gary has launched his second blog named garyvaynerchuk.com where he dispenses business advice and comments on emerging technologies and cultural trends. Gary is now also an angel investor in various startups, offering sweat equity to the projects he supports in addition to financial investments.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 22, 2010

Rest assured that potential investors will ask for names, and place some calls. Quantify existing skin-in-the-game, by insiders and outsiders, including sweat equity and capital. Soft responses from your candidates will definitely kill your credibility. Funding requirements. Include a current valuation estimate.

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Up and Running

JUNE 7, 2013

I’m going to take the high road by not mentioning anything by name, but it was a premium one-word dot com domain, which in itself was worth a pretty penny. Jealous of the equity pie being split in three equal pieces, the other two decided to vote me out. Or as they put it, “you can stay, you just can’t keep your equity.”

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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. All names redacted.). If you did, why would you be consulting for sweat equity instead of investing as a VC or for yourself?

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Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 6, 2013

Sassani, the CEO and founder of ZOZI.com, shared a story that demonstrates the new model of networking, “One of my most recent hires was a new public relations person named Tian Lee. 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.

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infochachkie.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

One startup I joined was very proud that they had been ‘accepted’ as a client by a prestigious Silicon Valley law firm whose name rhymes with a type of pasta (they are lawyers after all, so I have to be careful here…). The firm, (did I mention that the name rhymes with a type of pasta?) Remember – your adVenture’s time is precious.

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Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 10, 2016

There are aspects of business I love and having my own company has allowed me to focus on working on those, namely helping other business owners prepare for success, plan, and protect what they achieve. I love the freedom to add value to the world in a way that is uniquely mine. Growing my business, is seeing hard work resulting in success.

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 24, 2019

Along the way, we’ve come across some products that definitely have become household names like FitBit, and Soda Stream, Otterbox, S’well water bottles. John Jantsch: With a name like Duct Tape Marketing, I get asked this question all the time, is there a name story? Jules Pieri: Sure, so every day at 10 a.m

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grasshopper.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Sweat Equity Or Equity With Compensation? The arrangement of pure equity without additional compensation is considered a fairly risky agreement. The potential pay-out could be quite large since you will likely be offered significant equity if no money is involved. Leave a Comment Cancel reply. Connect With Us.

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grasshopperherder.com

FEBRUARY 19, 2011

Names redacted.) Unless your name is Mesmero the Magnificent, it’s probably not going to work on me. It doesn’t mean that he should not look up his charts, excel sheets and you-name-it. While all of those offers have been very kind and very flattering, some have tended towards the bizarre.

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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. Name and email address are required.

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Up and Running

JUNE 26, 2017

Mark Cuban has famously said, “Sweat equity is the best startup capital.” It’s the messaging of your company that permeates everything from your name and logo to executive decisions to your content and customer service. When people see your name, logo, or website, they need to get a clear idea of what you do.

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Occam's Razor

JANUARY 20, 2010

But if you are willing to put in a little bit of sweat equity then you'll stand miles apart from your SEO competitors. Content as in relevant videos that are named well, linked correctly and well tagged. [Does the above seem like a lot of work even if it is straight forward? I know we look for short cuts.

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Occam's Razor

NOVEMBER 24, 2009

Unique Names is are the unique twitter account id's in the network, less the "illegitimate" ones. mil people (Unique Names in your Second Level network). Now the reality is that that will rarely happen, if ever, but in our profoundly hyper connected world Unique Names is a good number to keep on your horizon.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 31, 2012

In 1775, she became the first woman to have a paper published under her name and would serve as the chief editor for the Maryland Journal in the early stages of the American Revolution. Nellie Cashman’s name should be familiar to anyone with an affinity for tales of the Wild West. Goddard wasn’t just printing papers, however.

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Designmantic Blog

DECEMBER 10, 2015

Even the most successful names in business began their journeys to greatness through startups. Sweat equity is the most valuable equity there is. “Chase the vision, not the money, the money will end up following you”. Tony Hseih (CEO of Zappos). You will be surprised to know that a lot of big brands had humble origins.

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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.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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