Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 18, 2013

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. Starting a business may be fun, but it’s not easy. Truly satisfied customers are a joy to every business person. A business model that works.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 29, 2012

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. Starting a business may be fun, but it’s not easy. Truly satisfied customers are a joy to every business person. A business model that works.

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Up and Running

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

Outline your business model. Your business model tells an investor how your idea will (or does) convert into being economically viable. The best way to show you how to communicate your business model is to show you an example of a good one. Your business model should answer the questions: What do you sell?

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 12, 2010

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. Starting a business may be fun, but it’s not easy. Truly satisfied customers are a joy to every business person. A business model that works.

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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. When we tested our now current business model, the results were shocking. If you’re thinking about pivoting, reach out to your founder network.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 13, 2012

Explain the business model. Many people seem to use the social network advertising model for revenue, but forget it assumes at least 100M users and $50M investment. Quantify existing skin-in-the-game, by insiders and outsiders, including sweat equity and capital. Funding requirements.

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grasshopperherder.com

FEBRUARY 19, 2011

If I can steal your idea by just hearing it, there is no defensible business model there. Reply Josh Strike says: January 18, 2011 at 10:50 am Tristan, the only thing I disagree with on an emotional level is the NDA business. Such a network ideally should maintain its own cloud and bank.

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Up and Running

JANUARY 24, 2014

Outline your business model. Your business model tells an investor how your idea will (or does) convert into being economically viable. The best way to show you how to communicate your business model is to show you an example of a good one. Your business model should answer the questions: What do you sell?

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Sweat Equity Churn Rate Forecast Business Model 138

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 13, 2011

Explain the business model. Many people seem to use the social network advertising model for revenue, but forget it assumes at least 100M users and $50M investment. Quantify existing skin-in-the-game, by insiders and outsiders, including sweat equity and capital. Funding requirements.

Business Plan 290

Business Plan Sweat Equity Exit Strategy Intellectual Property 290

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 New Business Models. Tech Business Environment.

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Gust

AUGUST 5, 2012

Explain the business model. Many people seem to use the social network advertising model for revenue, but forget it assumes at least 100M users and $50M investment. Quantify existing skin-in-the-game, by insiders and outsiders, including sweat equity and capital. Funding requirements.

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Business Plan Sweat Equity Exit Strategy Intellectual Property 182

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 22, 2010

Explain the business model. Many people seem to use the social network advertising model for revenue, but forget it requires at least 100M users and $50M investment. Quantify existing skin-in-the-game, by insiders and outsiders, including sweat equity and capital. Funding requirements.

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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. Management has the wrong pedigree, is geographically undesirable, competes in the wrong industry, and/or has a business model that lacks "scalability credibility" with the venture community.

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infochachkie.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

There is an inherent conflict in a consultant’s business model and the needs of a startup. Very interesting article, at my Firm we share many of your insights, starting by performance based compensation (often linked to sweat equity). Yet, it does nothing to help you execute your business model. Sales (12).

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Small Business Force

OCTOBER 14, 2016

Then, you need to describe what your business model is, i.e., why, how and how much that customer set will pay you to solve the identified problem or the unmet need. It provides credibility…or not that you can make this business happen. How scalable is your business model? How has that grown over what period?

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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. Resources for startups.

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www.chubbybrain.com

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

By way of crude example, if your building innovative trading software for Wall Street, be where you customers are and where you can best network. So, the best way of dealing with this issue is to take a long, long vesting period for all major sweat equity founders.”. Now I just need a business model.

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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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techcrunch.com

FEBRUARY 19, 2010

Especially since even Youtube is still struggling to try find a viable business model. Pepperdine Business Press Room – Graziadio School PR [.] The internet business is a game of scale (network externalities). It is a fast business, and you need to grow fast to succeed. dasein Yeah, I agree.

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sivers.org

JUNE 25, 2010

The programmer will probably not understand your business model, and therefore cant help you point out anything that doesnt make sense in the requirements. Many good freelancers are very busy right now and can be found through networking with friends or linked in. Complexity often hides a poor business model.

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