Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 1, 2021

Aspiring entrepreneurs ask me why their great idea hasn’t sold; they talk about it endlessly, and they expect others to do the development, finance, and marketing work for them. Those at the other extreme don’t look up from the grindstone long enough to notice whether all their work is producing sweat equity or just sweat.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 18, 2020

With one of the many new 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. Here are the key principles I recommend as an advisor to many entrepreneurs: Start your business in your own home.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 16, 2016

Whether you are talking to peers, competitors or investors, you as an active entrepreneur will be judged on your familiarity with today’s startup and funding jargon. In that context, I offer you my latest collection of popular investor-to-entrepreneur terms and concepts. Frothy is good for entrepreneurs. Sweat equity.

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ReadWriteStart

DECEMBER 29, 2010

The Internet might be truly global then, but the world of startups still revolves much around Silicon Valley. Together with 40 Nordic entrepreneurs , we decided to take a trip to the startup mecca, looking for opportunities and lessons to learn. Not Businessmen, Entrepreneurs. We Europeans think of entrepreneurs as businessmen.

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Up and Running

FEBRUARY 6, 2017

Accessing capital to launch a business is brutal for entrepreneurs just starting out along the path. After all, sweat equity can make up for a trim marketing budget, but it would be hard to make up for cuts in product development and customer service without sacrificing customer experience. You can do this!

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Up and Running

NOVEMBER 20, 2018

First-time entrepreneurs and small business founders often feel anxious when they think about all the factors that play into getting their idea off the ground. And when Jeff Bezos started Amazon in 1994, many people had never even heard of something called the internet. Starting up a business requires a lot of different steps.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 29, 2012

Aspiring entrepreneurs ask me why their great idea hasn’t sold; they talk about it endlessly, and they expect others to do the development, finance, and marketing work for them. Those at the other extreme don’t look up from the grindstone long enough to notice whether all their work is producing sweat equity or just sweat.

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View from Seed

DECEMBER 4, 2014

Below, Lee Hower offers advice for approaching these equity discussions objectively and properly. In addition to being a co-founder of NextView Ventures, Lee was an early member of PayPal and a founding team member at LinkedIn, so he speaks as both a former entrepreneur and a VC. Capital Investment & Sweat Equity.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 19, 2011

As internet crashed media became cheaper so they bought more and their tracking and analysis became really good so they did better. On Entrepreneurship: What makes a great entrepreneur? Later they became big business in Financial services lead-gen. He wanted to see all the data himself. combination of factors –.

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Agile VC

DECEMBER 4, 2014

Founding splits typically acknowledge that more senior folks or folks in C-level positions will have a larger founders’ equity percentage than more junior or staff-level co-founders. In other cases, some co-founders might forgo salary early on (if their personal circumstances permit) to earn an additional share of “sweat” equity.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 18, 2013

Aspiring entrepreneurs ask me why their great idea hasn’t sold; they talk about it endlessly, and they expect others to do the development, finance, and marketing work for them. Those at the other extreme don’t look up from the grindstone long enough to notice whether all their work is producing sweat equity or just sweat.

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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. Here are the key principles I recommend as an advisor to many entrepreneurs: Start your business in your own home.

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Agile VC

DECEMBER 4, 2014

Founding splits typically acknowledge that more senior folks or folks in C-level positions will have a larger founders’ equity percentage than more junior or staff-level co-founders. In other cases, some co-founders might forgo salary early on (if their personal circumstances permit) to earn an additional share of “sweat” equity.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 10, 2016

A lot of aspiring entrepreneurs fail to make the move to running their own business either due to lack of funds or time. This is however capital intensive and why a lot of aspiring entrepreneurs choose to stay away. This is often a fantastic opportunity if you are already a skilled roofer or carpenter who can offer sweat equity.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 12, 2010

Aspiring entrepreneurs ask me why their great idea hasn’t sold; they talk about it endlessly, and they expect others to do the development, finance, and marketing work for them. Those at the other extreme don’t look up from the grindstone long enough to notice whether all their work is producing sweat equity or just sweat.

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Up and Running

MAY 30, 2013

First-time entrepreneurs often feel anxious when they think about all the factors that must play a role if their ideas are ever to get off the ground. And when Jeff Bezos started Amazon.com in 1994, many people had never even heard of something called the Internet. Starting up a business requires a diversity of assets.

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Austin Startup

SEPTEMBER 1, 2010

Gary first came to internet stardom with his video blog Wine Library TV. Gary is now also an angel investor in various startups, offering sweat equity to the projects he supports in addition to financial investments. It’s just $35 for entrepreneur members to attend (including dinner).

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www.virtuosimedia.com

MARCH 8, 2012

Internet Security. Here’s a typical situation that goes awry: An entrepreneur has an idea for something online and after talking to a few friends who like it, decides to try to turn the idea into a business. PHP Tutorials. XML Tutorials. Programming Tools. Joomla Extensions. Joomla Templates. MooTools Plugins. Businesses.

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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. Use the tools that the Internet provides you and make sure that someone from your company has their eyes and ears tuned in! Get started.

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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. How in your opinion is somebody who claims to be a maker different than somebody who claims to be an entrepreneur or a business owner? So we were sort of dancing around a word.

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Gust

MAY 24, 2012

This is nothing new; long favored by family-controlled media empires such as Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation , among Internet firms alone, Google took a dual-class approach when going public in 2004. Nevertheless, these preferences aren’t intended to last forever.

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rapidrollout.wordpress.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Web Startup Lessons Advice from a CTO and Entrepreneur Home About Finding a Technical Partner for Your Startup Today I received an inquiry from a student at an Ivy League university who wants to launch a web startup. How can I go about looking for a (very) good programmer willing to do this as sweat equity?

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www.chubbybrain.com

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

We love a good entrepreneurial success story – entrepreneur as protagonist overcomes obstacles and builds a thriving, successful company (and become wealthy while doing so). So, the best way of dealing with this issue is to take a long, long vesting period for all major sweat equity founders. It’s free.

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www.chubbybrain.com

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

We’d previously highlighted the top startup failure post-mortems of all-time here (32 in total) written by a group of startup entrepreneurs gracious enough to share their lessons learned from their startup’s failure. In the post-mortem of Kiko, Mahesh Piddshetti writes : Most entrepreneurs have lots of ideas.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 2, 2013

The hot term these days is “viral marketing”, meaning we won’t do any marketing, but our product is so great that everyone will know about us anyway by word of mouth and through Internet social networks. Entrepreneurs who utter this line are kidding themselves. We have no competitors.” “Microsoft is too big/slow to be a threat.”

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 24, 2012

The hot term these days is “viral marketing”, meaning we won’t do any marketing, but our product is so great that everyone will know about us anyway by word of mouth and through Internet social networks. Entrepreneurs who utter this line are kidding themselves. We have no competitors.” “Microsoft is too big/slow to be a threat.”

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 24, 2011

The hot term these days is “viral marketing”, meaning we won’t do any marketing, but our product is so great that everyone will know about us anyway by word of mouth and through Internet social networks. Entrepreneurs who utter this line are kidding themselves. We have no competitors.” “Microsoft is too big/slow to be a threat.”

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 24, 2010

The hot term these days is “viral marketing”, meaning we won’t do any marketing, but our product is so great that everyone will know about us anyway by word of mouth and through Internet social networks. Entrepreneurs who utter this line are kidding themselves. We have no competitors.” “Microsoft is too big/slow to be a threat.”

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techcrunch.com

FEBRUARY 19, 2010

link] valto This will be very interesting to see, if entrepreneurs as “investors” will be different than “traditional investors”. anyway for the american economy as a whole it would be a disaster if your entrepreneurs started dreaming small. in britain your considered an entrepreneur if you start a corner shop, which isnt good.

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sivers.org

JUNE 25, 2010

trav (2010-06-19) # This is GPS for would-be web entrepreneurs lost in a sea of ideas with no sailors to steer their imaginary ship. Weve built Sandcastle specifically for an entrepreneur with an idea, who is not a developer. Sandcastle is a software development service for entrepreneurs. Should be read by any web entrepreneur.

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