Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

Too many founders are convinced they “need” equity financing, for the wrong reasons, as outlined in the book and supplemented with a bit of my own experience: Need employees and professional services. Of course, every company needs these, in due time. Need expensive resources up front. You need a prototype.

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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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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

Too many founders are convinced they “need” equity financing, for the wrong reasons, as outlined in the book and supplemented with a bit of my own experience: Need employees and professional services. Of course, every company needs these, in due time. Need expensive resources up front. You need a prototype.

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Gust

DECEMBER 15, 2013

Too many founders are convinced they “need” equity financing, for the wrong reasons, as outlined in the book and supplemented with a bit of my own experience: Need employees and professional services. Of course, every company needs these, in due time. Need expensive resources up front. You need a prototype.

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Bootstrapping Sweat Equity Entrepreneur Technical Review 183

www.drowningamerican.com

JUNE 22, 2012

Next → How we Hire for Sweat Equity (Part 2)… Posted on April 7, 2011 by Travis Biziorek. What We’re Doing: We are changing the way the world sees peer review, or the proofreading/editing process. equity in the company. Pingback: How do you start a tech startup as a non-technical person?

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www.virtuosimedia.com

MARCH 8, 2012

Home ▶ Businesses ▶ Startup Business Advice ▶ Current Page How To Find A Technical Cofounder For Your Online Business Idea. This article should also serve as a starting guide for programmers who are approached about becoming technical co-founders. Before You Pitch To A Technical Cofounder.

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discuss.joelonsoftware.com

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

where I can learn about how to build a sweat equity team? Right now, my business is just myself and a part-time employee who does support, testing, and product usability design. Rather, it is a proposal for sweat-equity investors. Equity partners need to have a hand in guiding the enterprise.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

Mike Arsenault and his two co-founders—all with technical backgrounds—built their MVP while working full time for other SaaS companies. “We 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.

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infochachkie.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Unlike employee training costs, which can typically be spread over years of service, the relative return from training a consultant is modest and pricey. This mistake, if left uncorrected, could have resulted in significant negative tax consequences for both our employees and the company. We are in Nashville which is not tech friendly.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

Mike Arsenault and his two co-founders—all with technical backgrounds—built their MVP while working full time for other SaaS companies. “We 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.

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Gust

MAY 24, 2012

Dual-class voting structures are receiving a lot of attention these days along with intense publicity related to the Facebook IPO , following in the wake of other recent tech IPOs with a similar structure such as Zynga and LinkedIn. Options and warrants, when issued, are also typically exercisable for shares of Common Stock.

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philipsmith.typepad.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

While there have been times in the last dozen or so years, usually during times of venture capital excess, that cash to founders, early-stage executives and other key employees has matched regular market compensation (still with the upside of the equity), this is not true in the vast majority in the start-up game. New Business Models.

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www.chubbybrain.com

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

Also worth a read after you review these startup failure post-mortems. Allen, Greylock, and General Atlantic wouldn’t be in the building on weekends and neither would the employees bother to come in. 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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Software Review Startup Technical Review Vesting 79

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 2, 2013

Also written plans are much more effective communication to your employees, lawyers, accountants, and other key players in your rollout. “If In fact, quite the opposite usually happens, due to complexity and work to switch. Investors expect the founder and other principals to have “skin in the game,” over and above “sweat equity.”

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 24, 2012

Also written plans are much more effective communication to your employees, lawyers, accountants, and other key players in your rollout. Another variation on this theme is the person who creates a “solution” from technology, and then makes up a “problem” that it will solve. It’s the market, stupid.” No need to risk my own funds.

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Sweat Equity Intellectual Property Startup Viral 238

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 24, 2011

Also written plans are much more effective communication to your employees, lawyers, accountants, and other key players in your rollout. “If In fact, quite the opposite usually happens, due to complexity and work to switch. Investors expect the founder and other principals to have “skin in the game,” over and above “sweat equity.”

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 24, 2010

Also written plans are much more effective communication to your employees, lawyers, accountants, and other key players in your rollout. Another variation on this theme is the person who creates a “solution” from technology, and then makes up a “problem” that it will solve. It’s the market, stupid.” No need to risk my own funds.”

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Sweat Equity Intellectual Property Startup Viral 130

techcrunch.com

FEBRUARY 19, 2010

Tech Gadgets Mobile Enterprise GreenTech CrunchBase TechCrunch TV Disrupt SF More TechCrunch TV Beta Invites Crunchies Elevator Pitches Gillmor Gang Podcasts TechCrunch Europe TechCrunch Trends TechCrunch France TechCrunch Japan Whats Hot: Android Apple Facebook Google Microsoft Twitter Yahoo Zynga Subscribe: Think Your Start-up Is Venture Worthy?

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sivers.org

JUNE 25, 2010

They log in to translate the documents, one at a time, marking each finished when done, which sends the file back to the company for review.” Also important: Only go for providers who have great reviews from many past customers. Decline bids from providers without many great reviews. The translator rejects or approves.

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