Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 31, 2012

Make sure your plan answers every relevant question that you could possibly imagine from your business partners, spouse, and potential investors. If you have neither, you better have a prospect pipeline, connections to distributors, or partner relationship with a known company to bolster your credibility. Show personal investment.

Intellectual Property 260

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 17, 2011

Make sure your plan answers every relevant question that you could possibly imagine from your business partners, spouse, and potential investors. If you have neither, you better have a prospect pipeline, connections to distributors, or partner relationship with a known company to bolster your credibility. Show personal investment.

Intellectual Property 253

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 22, 2010

Make sure your plan answers every relevant question that you could possibly imagine from your business partners, spouse, and potential investors. If you have neither, you better have a prospect pipeline, connections to distributors, or partner relationship with a known company to bolster your credibility. Show personal investment.

Intellectual Property 222

Intellectual Property Sweat Equity CTO Hire Fractional CTO 222

socialmatchbox.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Another option is sweat equity. It is important to realize that most people who are willing to work for sweat equity are not a) the best, b) in demand, and c) going to put their heart and soul into your project. Motivation to work for sweat equity is something else that founders tend to take for granted.

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discuss.joelonsoftware.com

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

where I can learn about how to build a sweat equity team? Rather, it is a proposal for sweat-equity investors. Make sure you treat people as partners, not as paid help. Equity partners need to have a hand in guiding the enterprise. You simply need to network. The gist: 1. Go to user groups.

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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 your networking to get advice, but all jobs can be do-it-yourself. Use your equity for key executives and business partners.

Bootstrapping 120

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Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 6, 2013

Thursday is guest post day here at Duct Tape Marketing and today’s guest is Porter Gale – author of Your Network is Your Net Worth. How we meet and network has dramatically changed. Set a networking goal (i.e. What words should you build into your content to reinforce your networking goals and objectives?

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 13, 2012

Many people seem to use the social network advertising model for revenue, but forget it assumes at least 100M users and $50M investment. Marketing, sales, and partners. Convince investors that you have lined up sales channels, strategic partners, and a viable marketing strategy. There are two problems with this assertion.

Business Plan 283

Business Plan Sweat Equity Exit Strategy Intellectual Property 283

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. 100,000 unique visits/month to our network of online sites.

Sweat Equity 122

Sweat Equity Churn Rate Elevator Pitch Forecast 122

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 13, 2011

Many people seem to use the social network advertising model for revenue, but forget it assumes at least 100M users and $50M investment. Marketing, sales, and partners. Convince investors that you have lined up sales channels, strategic partners, and a viable marketing strategy. There are two problems with this assertion.

Business Plan 290

Business Plan Sweat Equity Exit Strategy Intellectual Property 290

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. This also gave us legitimacy when we talk to potential customers, partners, advisers, and investors. If you’re thinking about pivoting, reach out to your founder network.

Sweat Equity 63

Sweat Equity B2B B2C Business Model 63

Gust

AUGUST 5, 2012

Many people seem to use the social network advertising model for revenue, but forget it assumes at least 100M users and $50M investment. Marketing, sales, and partners. Convince investors that you have lined up sales channels, strategic partners, and a viable marketing strategy. There are two problems with this assertion.

Business Plan 182

Business Plan Sweat Equity Exit Strategy Intellectual Property 182

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. 100,000 unique visits/month to our network of online sites.

Sweat Equity 138

Sweat Equity Churn Rate Forecast Business Model 138

Austin Startup

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

In other cases, they may come from your channel partners or elsewhere. The strength of their network is something you’ll want to confirm ahead of signing them on. You might consider starting with an offer to invest at a low valuation before discussing sweat equity. Never discount the power of a warm intro.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 22, 2010

Many people seem to use the social network advertising model for revenue, but forget it requires at least 100M users and $50M investment. Marketing, sales, and partners. Convince investors that you have lined up sales channels, strategic partners, and a viable marketing strategy. There are two problems with this assertion.

Business Plan 186

Business Plan Exit Strategy Sweat Equity Intellectual Property 186

Growthink Blog

MAY 23, 2011

An entrepreneur starts a company in classic " bootstrap " fashion - with a combination of sweat equity and their own financial resources. At the end of the period, all profits and proceeds are distributed to the various partners on a pre-determined split. Venture capitalists Cut Tough Deals.

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www.virtuosimedia.com

MARCH 8, 2012

If your presentation is compelling and detailed enough, you might be able to get them to become a full partner. It’s simply an untenable situation to expect the technical co-founder to assume the full burden of risk through sweat equity. Red Flags Galore.

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infochachkie.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Basing a consultant’s compensation on the incremental revenue they generate is a great example of a deal that is on The Fringe (for other creative approaches to partnering, see Agreements on The Fringe). Networking (20). Performance-based deals are healthy for all parties. Get A Company on The Fringe. John is a CPA and holds an M.B.A.

Equity 40

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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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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 24, 2019

This transcript is sponsored by our transcript partner – Rev – Get $10 off your first order. Check it out at semrush.com/partner/ducttapemarketing , and we’ll have that in the show notes. Or, do you actually somehow partner a little deeper than that? We called them partners, but that’s kind of vague.

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www.thestartup.eu

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Home RSS About Contact Advertise Partners How to bootstrap a Startup with less than $10k. Sweat Equity: Juliette and Marco put in a bit of work during weekends as project managers, designers, developers, sysadmins, etc. The app obviously geolocalizes every info and integrates with Facebook and other social networks.

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Austin Startup

JUNE 26, 2019

We tried, and opted out of, potentials for pivots; we pitched for game-changing partners and acquisitions that did not ultimately convert. 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. So, we worked to raise capital.

Silicon Valley 54

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grasshopperherder.com

FEBRUARY 19, 2011

As always, be wise in choosing your business partners. [.] Such a network ideally should maintain its own cloud and bank. What CAN form a root function for a STABLE peer-to-peer network with broad-based persistant utility? Additional problem is catalyzing the network 5. pssst… something Facebook lacks!)

Cofounder 47

Cofounder NDA Founder Sweat Equity 47

www.chubbybrain.com

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

The negativity either impacted investment funding (venture capital fell off a cliff in 2009) or the customers they were targeted as was the case for Untitled Partners who were building a platform for fractional art ownership. We were obviously wrong about Untitled Partners’ ability to grow through the subsequent downturn. #19

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www.chubbybrain.com

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

At the end, I asked myself what are the most critical resources I need to be successful and the answer was partners and developers. 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).

Software Review 79

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Small Business Force

OCTOBER 14, 2016

.” Describe who is on your team (or who will be there once you secure an investment); what is their specific/relevant experience; what is their relevant subject matter expertise and who makes up your professional network of advisors and partners. If you like this post, by all means, share it with your networks and colleagues.

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techcrunch.com

FEBRUARY 19, 2010

link] Valto Loikkanen free = someone else is paying Andy Mark Cuban’s quote from his sweat equity post, comes to mind: “for most businesses, they don’t need more cash, they need more brains&# [link] Valto Loikkanen what web is enabling us to do is going to change so many things. the article here. Share and [.]

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sivers.org

JUNE 25, 2010

Many good freelancers are very busy right now and can be found through networking with friends or linked in. 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.

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