The Startup Magazine

JANUARY 10, 2023

The first thing to look for when searching for a great employee is somebody with a personality that fits with your company culture,” Branson wrote in a LinkedIn column. Lemon Perfect’s success comes at a price: Hufnagel and his employees are willing to pay with sweat equity. It works. “We That drives me.”.

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Hiring Founder Sweat Equity Cofounder 132

YoungUpstarts

MAY 16, 2018

Limit your search to high-potential properties that have seen better days. Commit to plowing as much sweat equity as you can muster into your eventual choice. Follow these six tips and best practices to control your startup costs and stay on schedule. Look for High-Potential Properties.

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Sweat Equity Entrepreneur Equity Hosting 124

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 8, 2017

Second, in your search for partners, you need to be aware of the many considerations that can make the difference between success and failure in the business, as well as your satisfaction with the relationship. I’ll put in the money, if you put in the sweat equity.” It usually doesn’t work.

Partner 149

Partner Cofounder Sweat Equity Startup 149

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 12, 2013

Second, in your search for partners, you need to be aware of the many considerations that can make the difference between success and failure in the business, as well as your satisfaction with the relationship. I’ll put in the money, if you put in the sweat equity.” It usually doesn’t work.

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Cofounder Founder Sweat Equity Startup 240

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 8, 2012

Second, in your search for partners, you need to be aware of the many considerations that can make the difference between success and failure in the business, as well as your satisfaction with the relationship. I’ll put in the money, if you put in the sweat equity.” It usually doesn’t work.

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Cofounder Founder Sweat Equity Partner 244

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 3, 2011

Second, in your search for partners, you need to be aware of the many considerations that can make the difference between success and failure in the business, as well as your satisfaction with the relationship. I’ll put in the money, if you put in the sweat equity.” It usually doesn’t work.

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Cofounder Founder Sweat Equity Startup 239

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. Create a segment for Organic Search traffic. More traffic, not that hard.

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Analytics Search SEO Metrics 90

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. Your mind is searching for something to think about besides your body’s pain. But take this too far and your productivity drops off the cliff. I avoid colds and I have more mental staying power.

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Sweat Equity Startup Viral Equity 208

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 4, 2010

Second, in your search for partners, you need to be aware of the many considerations that can make the difference between success and failure in the business, as well as your satisfaction with the relationship. I’ll put in the money, if you put in the sweat equity.” It usually doesn’t work.

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Cofounder Founder Sweat Equity Startup 207

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 28, 2010

It has been hard in my years of searching for funds. I would like my sweat equity and existing IP to be the risk that I incur without also risking an asset that could easily represent the majority of my total assets. If you have some insights, don’t hesitate to let me know.

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Sweat Equity Entrepreneur Equity CPA 188

Up and Running

APRIL 10, 2019

After some searching around in the early days, we found some software called AppogeeHR. When you read other articles, they will talk about relying on personal income or savings, and they talk about sweat equity. They both cost a lot of money, and we didn’t want to have to use outside funding to do that.

Marketing 79

Marketing Bootstrapping Sweat Equity Harvest 79

Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 6, 2013

If you do build a site or start generating content, know the power of keywords, the basic principles of search engine optimization and the power of links. Have you submitted your website to the major search engines and Internet directories? What words should you build into your content to reinforce your networking goals and objectives?

Networking 71

Networking Sweat Equity Social Media .Net 71

ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

He searched and pitched planners who worked at companies with 500+ people and closed $200k himself before he made his first sales hire. 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.” And what about Socio’s numbers after its $9k MVP?

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Sweat Equity Software Review Vesting Cofounder 78

www.virtuosimedia.com

MARCH 8, 2012

Look at online advertising rates for your potential product keywords, industry publications ad rates, search engine optimization fees, and any other advertising avenues you’d like to pursue. It’s simply an untenable situation to expect the technical co-founder to assume the full burden of risk through sweat equity.

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Technical Cofounder Cofounder Technical Review NDA 41

ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

He searched and pitched planners who worked at companies with 500+ people and closed $200k himself before he made his first sales hire. 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.” And what about Socio’s numbers after its $9k MVP?

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Sweat Equity Software Review Vesting Cofounder 50

grasshopper.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Getting Paid in Equity: A What to Do Guide. Equity-based pay is often used by the founders of young start-ups who want to grow their businesses but cannot offer big salaries to qualified professionals. Sweat Equity Or Equity With Compensation? Grasshopper Blog. Grasshopper.com. How it Works. Pricing & Signup.

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Equity Vesting Sweat Equity Salary 41

Austin Startup

JUNE 26, 2019

Because we will not be maintaining the integrity of the data after June 28th, we will be discounting the search and account features after that date. Since launching the site last year, we’ve had the privilege of helping more than 7,500 folks with their most important search.

Silicon Valley 54

Silicon Valley Startup B2C Sweat Equity 54

grasshopperherder.com

FEBRUARY 19, 2011

There no reason to disclose your secret google busting search algorithm on the first date. There are certainly secret sauce recipes that are worth protecting and I am certainly being dickish about it. (So So thanks for calling me on that.) I think the only misunderstanding here is the scope of that first conversation.

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Cofounder NDA Founder Sweat Equity 47

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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Entrepreneur Valuation Sweat Equity Common Stock 60

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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Sweat Equity Business Plan Naming eCommerce 145

Occam's Razor

NOVEMBER 24, 2009

Here's today's view of the data for my account (searching for @avinashkaushik). Be willing to put in the sweat equity. Twitter StreamGraphs is delightful for: 1. its visualization of highly associative words with the word you are querying and. Please click on the image for a higher resolution image. Missed the contest?

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Social Media Analytics Metrics Media 124

rapidrollout.wordpress.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

How can I go about looking for a (very) good programmer willing to do this as sweat equity? It’s common for a college student to do a sweat equity partnership with another college student. So you see my dilemma. Which avenues would you suggest I should take? Is Your Partner a College Student?

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Technical Review Fractional CTO Partner CTO Hire 40

Designmantic Blog

DECEMBER 10, 2015

Brin was a college graduate who, with his partner Larry Page secured funding to launch ‘Google’; a search engine that would eventually be considered as one of the most valuable brands in the world according to Forbes.com. Sweat equity is the most valuable equity there is. Sergey Brin – Co-founder of ‘Google’.

Small Business 40

Small Business Cofounder Sweat Equity .Net 40

www.chubbybrain.com

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

Don’t exacerbate the issue by needing to figure out how to deal with 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.”.

Cofounder 89

Cofounder Startup Technical Cofounder CTO Hire 89

www.chubbybrain.com

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

I was manifesting this huge monolithic application in my head that would revolutionize the job search, I had even written some code at this point, and didn’t have any idea if actual businesses were willing to pay a dime for it. Post-Mortem Title : My eHarmony for Hiring Failure. This started to make me more nervous.

Software Review 79

Software Review Startup Technical Review Vesting 79

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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Venture Capital Technical Review Sweat Equity Valuation 62

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. To everyone who has an idea search your contacts for technical people and spin your ideas and user stories with them. Insightful.

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CTO Hire Hiring Software Review Technical Review 84