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What is Sweat Equity Worth?

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Entrepreneur Homepage Startups Starting a Business Home How-To Guides Startup Basics Business Ideas Business Planning Startup Financing Success Stories Home-Based Business Starting a Business Play Video How to Take a New Product from Just an Idea to a Business (Video). What is Sweat Equity Worth? BY Asheesh Advani. |.

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Master of Customer Acquisition, Matt Coffin, On Startups …

Both Sides of the Table

o Huge on PR, “Be Everywhere” is his motto – fly to NY, proactively everywhere he could get press. To make PR big you need to find a way to “make news”. To make PR big you need to find a way to “make news”. Finally: The last bit of the video talks a lot about what Matt has invested in and what excites him.

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Marketing Sweat Equity: Getting Your Startup’s First Sales—Without Spending Money on Consultants and PR

Up and Running

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. The first video I’d recommend watching is Maile Ohye’s SEO for Startups in Under 10 Minutes. Knowledge is power.

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Beware The Consultant

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For instance, if a consultant proposes to help you with public relations, pay them a commission equivalent to the greater of a flat fee per story placed or a percentage of revenue generated from the PR coverage. Such positions include: PR, Sales, Product Development, Lead Generation, Strategic Planning, Fund Raising, etc. Consultant.

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Transcript of How to Turn Your Product Idea Into a Business

Duct Tape Marketing

All the important SEO tools that you need for paid traffic, social media, PR, and of course SEO. It’s a sophisticated platform so the imagery must be beautiful, the copy, the video, has to be on par with everything else there. Check it out at semrush.com/partner/ducttapemarketing , and we’ll have that in the show notes.

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25 Best Startup Failure Post-Mortems of All Time

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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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Think Your Start-up Is Venture Worthy? Think Again.

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Off the top of my head, one of them was about some online scrap book storage, and another was an online video startup. If anything, I would think folks would have learned to stay away from video startups since that horse is kinda beat to death already. What about video and audio capture of family or digital albums? Think Again.