Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 23, 2013

When you have invented a new technology, you need expensive models and testing, including samples for potential customers. Investors are not interested in covering overhead, unless they are convinced that you have already put all your “skin in the game” (not just sweat equity), and have real contributions from friends and family.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

When you have invented a new technology, you need expensive models and testing, including samples for potential customers. Investors are not interested in covering overhead, unless they are convinced that you have already put all your “skin in the game” (not just sweat equity), and have real contributions from friends and family.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

When you have invented a new technology, you need expensive models and testing, including samples for potential customers. Investors are not interested in covering overhead, unless they are convinced that you have already put all your “skin in the game” (not just sweat equity), and have real contributions from friends and family.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 10, 2016

Every startup founder loves to prompt for questions from investors and potential key team members about their vision, and the huge opportunity that can be had with their disruptive technology. 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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Gust

DECEMBER 15, 2013

When you have invented a new technology, you need expensive models and testing, including samples for potential customers. Investors are not interested in covering overhead, unless they are convinced that you have already put all your “skin in the game” (not just sweat equity), and have real contributions from friends and family.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 8, 2015

Every startup founder loves to prompt for questions from investors and potential key team members about their vision, and the huge opportunity that can be had with their disruptive technology. 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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ReadWriteStart

DECEMBER 29, 2010

To my surprise, the ideas and technology behind that startups were not superior to the ones we have in Finland. Unsurprisingly, this seems to weed out the less passionate people, while encouraging others to put in sweat equity in their own ideas. The incubators and co-working spaces are on par with what we have.

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discuss.joelonsoftware.com

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

where I can learn about how to build a sweat equity team? Rather, it is a proposal for sweat-equity investors. Andrew Badera Thursday, October 09, 2008 Deleting … Approving … I quite agree, Andrew, that the equity partners need to have a hand in guiding the enterprise. The key here is motivation.

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Austin Startup

JULY 23, 2010

And, naturally, he has found a way to combine his interests in technology and teaching in a couple of ways. Meanwhile, speaking of sweat, if your son or daughter is the type who you think would find the sweat-ethic of “better living through agony&# appealing, then check out Austin Jiu-Jitsu.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 13, 2012

Many entrepreneurs scare away potential investors by claiming that their technology represents “truly disruptive technology.” Quantify existing skin-in-the-game, by insiders and outsiders, including sweat equity and capital. No investor wants to wait that long for his payback, or fund the years of waiting.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 13, 2016

Just because your technology is exciting and potentially disruptive doesn’t mean you are ready to build a business. Quantify founder investments, both cash and sweat-equity. What is the business problem you are solving? This may seem obvious, but I still hear too many “solutions looking for a problem.”

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 13, 2011

Many entrepreneurs scare away potential investors by claiming that their technology represents “truly disruptive technology.” Quantify existing skin-in-the-game, by insiders and outsiders, including sweat equity and capital. No investor wants to wait that long for his payback, or fund the years of waiting.

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Business Plan Sweat Equity Exit Strategy Intellectual Property 290

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

MARCH 5, 2010

I have a ready excuse for squeezing in a little “sweat equity” — I need to get in shape to know my customers’ issues. Technology startups can be horrible for your body. However, I also know firsthand that exercise increases total productivity. I avoid colds and I have more mental staying power.

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Pascal's View

AUGUST 12, 2009

We must solve the IPO problem, and a review of historic IPO data pre-technology bubble suggests that we need to achieve an average of 130 IPO’s per year to restore equilibrium to the venture-backed company liquidity cycle. Share and Enjoy:

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Gust

AUGUST 5, 2012

Many entrepreneurs scare away potential investors by claiming that their technology represents “truly disruptive technology.” Quantify existing skin-in-the-game, by insiders and outsiders, including sweat equity and capital. No investor wants to wait that long for his payback, or fund the years of waiting.

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Business Plan Sweat Equity Exit Strategy Intellectual Property 182

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 28, 2010

You will find that investors don’t often invest in a services business, since there are no assets for equity, and banks don’t lend money to someone with no credit and a mortgage problem. Dear StartupPro, My husband was in the title business for 16 years, and then became a technology educator. He has a Masters in his education field.

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ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 18, 2012

And just like millions of people have put their love lives in the hands of technology, you can now find your business soul mate online. Technology is a highly competitive industry with a race to market. LESONSKY : So in this age of technology, can co-founders have a long-distance relationship? But how do you find the right one?

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femgineer.com

JULY 18, 2010

Sweat equity or salary? By letting them learn and play with new technologies from time to time. There are a lot of engineers out there who have been burned by founders who pull and push them in a variety of directions. They want to work on challenging projects but understand that there will be grunt work that needs to get done.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 22, 2010

Many entrepreneurs scare away potential investors by claiming that their technology represents “truly disruptive technology.” Quantify existing skin-in-the-game, by insiders and outsiders, including sweat equity and capital. No investor wants to wait that long for his payback, or fund the years of waiting.

Business Plan 186

Business Plan Exit Strategy Sweat Equity Intellectual Property 186

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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ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 18, 2012

And just like millions of people have put their love lives in the hands of technology, you can now find your business soul mate online. Technology is a highly competitive industry with a race to market. LESONSKY : So in this age of technology, can co-founders have a long-distance relationship? But how do you find the right one?

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Cofounder Founder St. Louis Sweat Equity 110

Austin Startup

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

You might consider starting with an offer to invest at a low valuation before discussing sweat equity. Even better if the advisors are able to invest money in the company, even a small amount ($10K), so they feel like there is more at stake. It is up to you as the founder to keep your advisors accountable.

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Growthink Blog

MAY 23, 2011

An entrepreneur starts a company in classic " bootstrap " fashion - with a combination of sweat equity and their own financial resources. A " black swan " investor appears out of the blue and backs the company - less impressed by the technology than by the talent, desire, and grit of the entrepreneur.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

Vested Technology spent $17k on their MVP. Vested Technology is a recruiting-automation platform that works alongside teams to identify, engage, and hire passive candidates. Prior to his role at Vested Technology, co-founder and CEO Akash Srivastava worked on Wall Street. He spent $17k to launch Vested Technology’s MVP.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 6, 2013

Technology has redefined how we prospect for jobs, meet business contacts, and interview. 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. Get out there and use technology to accelerate and amplify your connecting efforts.

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Ben's Blog

JUNE 29, 2010

In particular, we think the keeper of the product vision should run the company whenever possible because the toughest and most important decisions in technology companies are always about product strategy. Years and years of research and sweat equity went into cracking the code, and the results are magical. A gigantic market.

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chrischandler.name

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

If you’ve considered finding and asking a developer for his or her time in exchange for sweat equity, I’m going to strongly advise you against it. Worse yet, they make you appear an amateur with little understanding of how the technology field and development works.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

Vested Technology spent $17k on their MVP. Vested Technology is a recruiting-automation platform that works alongside teams to identify, engage, and hire passive candidates. Prior to his role at Vested Technology, co-founder and CEO Akash Srivastava worked on Wall Street. He spent $17k to launch Vested Technology’s MVP.

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Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 10, 2016

Thanks to Carl Mazzanti, eMazzanti Technologies. #4 All the sweat equity that comes with being an entrepreneur is all worth it when you see your business grow into the vision you had when you started. We all want to believe that what we do matters. 4 – Seeing Progress. Photo Credit: Jacob Dayan.

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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). And a year later, they helped us raising funds, proving this positionning was not that bad. link] Luis Rivera. I guess not all “consultants” are equal afterall. link] Luis Rivera.

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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. These are: Senior engineer: 0.3% to 0.3%.

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www.thestartup.eu

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Sweat Equity: Juliette and Marco put in a bit of work during weekends as project managers, designers, developers, sysadmins, etc. MyGengo.com and Tolingo.de. 24h turnaround and a great service. Total cost: $100. Hosting: pay-as-you-go cloud servers, mostly free in the beginning. Debug/usability: UserTesting and $100. Total: $8,350.

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 24, 2019

At the same time, technology, even the internet alone, were making it possible for better products than ever to get created from small companies. 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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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. A must read! startupcto

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rapidrollout.wordpress.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

How can I go about looking for a (very) good programmer willing to do this as sweat equity? It’s common for a college student to do a sweat equity partnership with another college student. One partner takes on a business role and the other takes responsibility for technology. So you see my dilemma.

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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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Gust

AUGUST 7, 2012

Sweat equity can be a problem. Usually that’s some technology of your own, sometimes it’s a market position, but there has to be something to give you some barriers to keep everybody else, especially bigger and more powerful players, from jumping in on top of you. Nothing defensible. You need a secret sauce.

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