Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 19, 2011

o On 1/11/05 his daughter was born at 8AM, at 6 PM email showing first million dollar rev day for the company and 8 PM term sheet from Experian to buy the company – all on the same day! He met with 8 companies and got 6 term sheets, decided to take General Atlantic deal and that’s when Experian came back to buy the whole thing.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 6, 2016

With one of the new free tools and a dose of sweat equity, you can create a website for almost nothing -- and you are on your way to success with ecommerce, your latest invention or personal services. Use multiple social-media channels, blogging, email and voicemail to build the same image and responsiveness as larger competitors.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 10, 2016

This is often a fantastic opportunity if you are already a skilled roofer or carpenter who can offer sweat equity. In the book “ The 4-Hour Workweek “, author Tim Ferriss asks business owners to make use of virtual assistants to clear up mundane tasks like processing orders, answering email or managing calendar.

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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. Not only were people responding with interest to our straight up cold emails, but people actually starting inquiring about our product and we even sold business.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 2, 2011

Businesses can be built on sweat equity. It's amazing how rare it is for professionals to return phone calls and emails promptly, show up on time, or finish a project for the price quoted. But if you've spent all your money on the website for party supplies, you may not have the funds to have the site redone.

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Berkonomics

OCTOBER 15, 2020

The post Should you include your sweat equity in a business plan? If you had to replace yourself with a professional hired to duplicate your skills, what would you have to pay in salary and incentive today? That amount is almost always higher, much higher, than the amount budgeted for the entrepreneur. A “messy” solution.

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Austin Startup

SEPTEMBER 1, 2010

Gary is now also an angel investor in various startups, offering sweat equity to the projects he supports in addition to financial investments. If you are not a Texchange member, please email ashleyarkin@texchange.org to register. Gary’s ultimate goal is to one day own the New York Jets.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

Rejoiner , an email platform for ecommerce sites, began as a side project. Sakucoglu says he got Socio’s first 10 customers by cold emailing event planners he found on LinkedIn. Co-founder and CEO Kyle Wong, who was featured on Forbes’ 30 Under 30 List, says the company’s MVP was built using “sweat equity.”

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Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 6, 2013

Every day people are making connections online via Skype, in Google + Hangouts, through email and more. She found my profile on LinkedIn and sent me an email that was so passionate I realized she could sell the company better than I could. What is memorable about your email, post or tweet? I hired her on the spot.”

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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. If you did, why would you be consulting for sweat equity instead of investing as a VC or for yourself? GrasshopperHerder.com.

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Scott Edward Walker

JUNE 23, 2011

As I discussed in my recent post “ How To Hire a Superstar Engineer for Your Startup ,” startups may not give employees “sweat equity” in lieu of any ongoing cash payment/salary; nor may startups defer wages and other compensation. And simply calling a worker a “consultant” or “independent contractor” in an agreement is irrelevant.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

Rejoiner , an email platform for ecommerce sites, began as a side project. Sakucoglu says he got Socio’s first 10 customers by cold emailing event planners he found on LinkedIn. Co-founder and CEO Kyle Wong, who was featured on Forbes’ 30 Under 30 List, says the company’s MVP was built using “sweat equity.”

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infochachkie.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Instead of hearing from your long lost third-cousin, you will be inundated with an avalanche of ‘congratulatory’ emails, calls and letters from people who want to relieve you of the burden of your hard-earned equity round. Email me via the website and we can pick this up one-on-one. link] Luis Rivera. 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. Your email address will not be published.

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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 it takes days, weeks, or even months for you to respond to an email, I’m not going to work with you.

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grasshopperherder.com

FEBRUARY 19, 2011

Then please email me with the number of meetings you manage to get. Send me an email please. I was wondering why I hadn’t received any email updates in awhile… Reply Tristan says: January 20, 2011 at 10:14 am Thanks but no worries! It simply limits the number of people you can talk to. Willing to be proven wrong tho.

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Tim Keane

APRIL 12, 2006

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. It’s only human for the entrepreneur to want to retain as much equity as possible and for the investor to want to minimize risk. Signup for email updates.

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philipsmith.typepad.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Recently I was offered the opportunity to help a company and the opening gambit from the CEO was "well, we can only pay equity and in your own blog you say that's OK" Er, yes, but when it turns out that you have a staff of 15, all on salaries, a $3.5m Name and email address are required. URLs automatically linked.).

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Occam's Razor

JANUARY 20, 2010

I recently did a webinar for the Search Engine Strategies conference (I am doing the opening conference keynote at SES London and SES New York ) and my Market Motive co-faculty member Greg Jarboe sent me this KPI via email: "Your webcast was a big success. Your KPI questions per attendee was off the chart!"

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Austin Startup

JUNE 26, 2019

As we self-funded on a tiny amount of cash, sweat equity and vision, we also worked in a methodical manner, moving the ball down the field week by week. No revenue isn’t always a problem for venture-style businesses; no investors + no revenue = challenges for most founders without tremendous self-funding.

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rapidrollout.wordpress.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

I’ve managed to contact two serial entrepreneurs by email, give them the pitch, and both of them agreed with me but commented that it would be a challenge to set up. How can I go about looking for a (very) good programmer willing to do this as sweat equity? None of my friends and I are able to do this ourselves.

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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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sivers.org

JUNE 25, 2010

Derek Sivers about me blog books email list contact How to hire a programmer to make your ideas happen 2010-06-19 Do you have an idea for a website, online business, or application, but need a programmer to turn that idea into reality? Feel free to include your URL and email for anyone to contact you. Insightful. Thanks much.

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