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What is Sweat Equity Worth?

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What is Sweat Equity Worth? Determining how to value sweat equity is key when negotiating with investors and employees. July 31, 2007 |. Entrepreneurs often ask me how to value the sweat equity invested in their startup. Sweat equity is just one component of early-stage valuation.

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Recruiting Startup Engineers | Femgineer

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Sweat equity or salary? There are a lot of engineers out there who have been burned by founders who pull and push them in a variety of directions. We engineers know that need to be agile in a startup and be able to scrap code and rebuild, but want we don’t want is to have a founder who manic or aimless.

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@altgate » Blog Archive » More on the “VC Math Problem”

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I’m a visual person so here’s how I see it: Entrepreneurs start companies and the founders (“F&# in my chart) invest capital which they grow with sweat equity and then limited partners (“LPs&# ) invest capital via VCs which in turn grows the pie to the eventual “exit&# (which comes in the form of M&A or IPOs).

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Beware The Consultant

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Very interesting article, at my Firm we share many of your insights, starting by performance based compensation (often linked to sweat equity). Copyright © 2007 - 2011 infoChachkie. And a year later, they helped us raising funds, proving this positionning was not that bad. link] Luis Rivera. link] Luis Rivera. startupcto

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