Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 13, 2012

Clearly define the customer, channel, and revenue model associated with this solution. Describe your market penetration strategy, sales channels, pricing, and strategic partnerships. Convince investors that you have lined up sales channels, strategic partners, and a viable marketing strategy. Industry & market sizing.

Business Plan 283

Business Plan Sweat Equity Exit Strategy Intellectual Property 283

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 22, 2010

Clearly define the customer, channel, and revenue model associated with this solution. Describe your market penetration strategy, sales channels, pricing, and strategic partnerships. Convince investors that you have lined up sales channels, strategic partners, and a viable marketing strategy. Industry & market sizing.

Business Plan 186

Business Plan Exit Strategy Sweat Equity Intellectual Property 186

Gust

AUGUST 5, 2012

Clearly define the customer, channel, and revenue model associated with this solution. Describe your market penetration strategy, sales channels, pricing, and strategic partnerships. Convince investors that you have lined up sales channels, strategic partners, and a viable marketing strategy. Industry & market sizing.

Business Plan 182

Business Plan Sweat Equity Exit Strategy Intellectual Property 182

Up and Running

FEBRUARY 6, 2017

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. Google Webmasters has a fantastic channel, chock-full of helpful guides based on the expertise of the team that makes Google work.

Sweat Equity 60

Sweat Equity Equity Sales PR 60

Gust

AUGUST 7, 2012

Sweat equity can be a problem. Build sales on assumptions like web traffic, channels, events, sales locations, or combinations on those. And a founder who fudges the truth , thinking nobody will notice, has to be very good at it, or very lucky, because when this comes out investors assume that lies never exist alone.

Business Plan 172

Business Plan Sweat Equity Salary Founder 172

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 2, 2016

That’s why all those so-called million dollar ideas I hear about as an investor don’t get me excited, and entrepreneurs find that working twenty hours a day often generates nothing more than sweat, instead of the desired sweat equity. Keeping expenses down must always be top priority. Increasing customer focus and loyalty.

Sweat Equity 120

Sweat Equity Salary Startup Viral 120

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 16, 2015

That’s why all those so-called million dollar ideas I hear about as an investor don’t get me excited, and entrepreneurs find that working twenty hours a day often generates nothing more than sweat, instead of the desired sweat equity. Keeping expenses down must always be top priority. Increasing customer focus and loyalty.

Sweat Equity 120

Sweat Equity Salary Viral Leadership 120

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 multiple social-media channels, blogging, email and voicemail to build the same image and responsiveness as larger competitors.

Bootstrapping 120

Bootstrapping Hockey Stick Sweat Equity Intellectual Property 120

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 13, 2016

You need to identify pricing details, sales channels, strategic partners and a customized marketing plan consistent with your industry and target segment. Quantify founder investments, both cash and sweat-equity. What are your specific marketing and sales plans? Highlight elements of traction you already have.

Sweat Equity 120

Sweat Equity Advisory Board Liquidity Event Startup 120

YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 10, 2016

New businesses are launching every day and regardless of their industry, they have all been investing in new age marketing channels like SEO and content marketing. This is often a fantastic opportunity if you are already a skilled roofer or carpenter who can offer sweat equity. Content Writer.

Sweat Equity 100

Sweat Equity Lead Generation Demand SEO 100

Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 6, 2013

Enable social sharing on all posts and post not only on your blog but also on your social media channels. So blogging is a bit like sweat equity: you need to make sure you can glean a return in ways that are not directly deposited in your bank account. Make your headline memorable but not clichéd. This is where it gets tricky.

Networking 78

Networking Sweat Equity Social Media .Net 78

Up and Running

DECEMBER 23, 2019

Sweat Equity. “I Further, we were able to use the winnings from each competition to make small investments in advertising the MVP to get additional user feedback and test ad channels.” – Colton Gardner , Neighbor. You can use your own savings to fund your company and move to a cheaper area to save money.

Finance 70

Finance Sweat Equity Bootstrapping Entrepreneur 70

Austin Startup

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

In other cases, they may come from your channel partners or elsewhere. This is useful for a number of reasons, the most obvious of which is to help you navigate the right channels in your vertical and open doors to potential customers. It is up to you as the founder to keep your advisors accountable.

Advisory Board 48

Advisory Board Sweat Equity Marketing Vertical 48

Occam's Razor

NOVEMBER 24, 2009

Twitter is amongst new media channels that are challenging how we communicate, with whom we communicate and perhaps most fundamentally how we (Marketers) influence people. Sadly execution and analysis of these new social media channels has been hobbled by old world thinking. My new book Web Analytics 2.0 Twitter is not that.

Social Media 125

Social Media Analytics Metrics Media 125

Austin Startup

JULY 23, 2010

This explosive growth has in no small part been due to the popularity of the Ultimate Fighting Championship (or UFC) league, brought to the forefront in the past decade through the entertaining, if testosterone-heavy, Ultimate Fighter reality program on the Spike cable TV channel.

Sweat Equity 60

Sweat Equity Technical Review Software Review Austin 60

grasshopperherder.com

FEBRUARY 19, 2011

Q: “What will be your best channel for customer acquisition?&# The most clever thing you can possibly say to me is, “I don’t know.&# Q: “When will you have funding secured?&# A: “I don’t know, I’m targeting a six month schedule.&# A: “I don’t know.

Cofounder 47

Cofounder NDA Founder Sweat Equity 47

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

Up and Running

JUNE 23, 2015

“It took an enormous investment of sweat equity on both our parts,” Allyson admits. Social media is our primary marketing channel,” Cote says. What started as a basic obstetrics kit, adopted early on by doctors and midwives, has expanded into a global, online marketplace. Social media.

Cofounder 60

Cofounder Sweat Equity Social Media Business Model 60

infochachkie.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Very interesting article, at my Firm we share many of your insights, starting by performance based compensation (often linked to sweat equity). RingRevenue Creates A New Performance Marketing Revenue Channel. |. And a year later, they helped us raising funds, proving this positionning was not that bad. link] Luis Rivera.

Equity 40

Equity Silicon Valley Cofounder PR 40

Occam's Razor

JANUARY 20, 2010

But if you are willing to put in a little bit of sweat equity then you'll stand miles apart from your SEO competitors. Why not start a YouTube channel with a series of how-to videos? [Does the above seem like a lot of work even if it is straight forward? I know we look for short cuts. There is no such thing in real life.

Analytics 90

Analytics Search SEO Metrics 90

Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 24, 2019

What’s the best path for that kind of maker to circumvent the traditional distribution channels? The traditional channels, by the way, are still powerful. But assuming without a big budget it’s going to be more about sweat equity and putting in the time to create great content.

Product 76

Product Sweat Equity Naming SEO 76