Austin Startup

JUNE 26, 2019

Even though most of this message was already drafted, we also had a Hail Mary of a final acquisition conversation that closed the following morning. The Whole Enchilada For those of you interested in more than The Skinny, keep reading… Countless conversations have been had with key users, customers, advisors, mentors, family and friends.

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Austin Startup

JANUARY 30, 2020

We made it from nothing, built it up with sweat equity, do everything in our means to make this thing grow, and wait to see what happens. We had to have serious conversations between ourselves if we wanted to essentially start from ground zero again. The relationship between a founder and their startup is a unique one?—?we’re

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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. Leave a comment and join the conversation. But take this too far and your productivity drops off the cliff. As founder of a run/bike app startup, I can write off my workouts. What are your fitness tips?

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grasshopperherder.com

FEBRUARY 19, 2011

But starting a conversation with, "Just sign here" is simply unrealistic. Would you ever say to an investor, “I don’t trust you with my signup conversion rate?&# I think the only misunderstanding here is the scope of that first conversation. It simply limits the number of people you can talk to. Totally agree.

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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. percent average conversion rate. 1,000 new leads captured per month.

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Occam's Razor

NOVEMBER 24, 2009

First: An Ode to New Thinking: One common thing between the all tools in this post is that they were built by "outsiders" One of the things I love and adore about Twitter (besides all that connection and conversation) is how its open API has lit a fierce fire of innovation when it comes to analytics. Velocity. * Twitter is not that.

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philipsmith.typepad.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Listed below are links to weblogs that reference Two Tales of "Working For Equity". You can follow this conversation by subscribing to the comment feed for this post. This same 'later stage can't pay you anything up front' ruse gets done for sales and marketing types, too.

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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. Target market advisory boards was originally published in Austin Startups on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.

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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. 0.22% average conversion rate. 1,000 new leads captured per month.

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crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 25, 2012

SM is cheap, fast, flexible, powerful and, with an investment of sweat equity, can bring meaningful returns to a small business. By reacting to, starting, and leading conversations online, you can attract followers and build reputation as a thought leader or establish your business as a source for subject-matter expertise.

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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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www.virtuosimedia.com

MARCH 8, 2012

It’s simply an untenable situation to expect the technical co-founder to assume the full burden of risk through sweat equity. If you’re not willing to put money into the project, it tells me you’re not committed and aren’t willing to share the risk. Check out our most recent business articles and resources.

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www.chubbybrain.com

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

If I tell someone I’m the mayor of a spot, I’m in an instant conversation: “What makes you the mayor?” 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). Company : Boompa.com.

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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.

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Tim Keane

APRIL 12, 2006

Debt with some sort of conversion provides greater risk abatement in that debt comes “due” at some point if the conversion terms aren’t met. The percentage owned by the entrepreneur after the investment has been made is the “sweat equity” that represents the work the entrepreneur has done to get to this point.

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Occam's Razor

JANUARY 20, 2010

If you truly want to kick it up a notch as a SEO please please please go to the Goal and Ecommerce / Conversions reports and apply your organic segment, stretch the time period, and report (aggressively) how well your SEO efforts are delivering value to the business. Start a conversation. I know we look for short cuts.

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sivers.org

JUNE 25, 2010

Im a UX and front end designer bootstrapping my own products with pure sweat equity at night but always looking for someone else to partner with(engineer/programmer)to bring these ideas life. I have the same conversation with almost every new client working on their first project. Insightful. Thanks much. Contact a few.

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