ReadWriteStart

DECEMBER 29, 2010

The Internet might be truly global then, but the world of startups still revolves much around Silicon Valley. Unsurprisingly, this seems to weed out the less passionate people, while encouraging others to put in sweat equity in their own ideas. This is something I feel we Europeans aren’t very good at.

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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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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 16, 2016

Sweat equity. This unpaid work component is sized in dollars, added to any funds contributed, to represent the total contribution of a founding partner and converted to an equity ownership percentage in a new startup. Although the term may sound negative, it’s actually a very positive sign. Ramen-profitable.

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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. With the advent of the Internet, the size and address of your office is irrelevant.

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Hockey Stick Bootstrapping Sweat Equity Intellectual Property 423

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 1, 2021

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. Some say the Internet is a metaphor for our brains. Starting a business may be fun, but it’s not easy. No matter how many times you’ve done it – the stresses are tremendous.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

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. With the advent of the Internet, the size and address of your office is irrelevant.

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View from Seed

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. Capital Investment & Sweat Equity. Both of these are typically reflected in the founder equity split.

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Equity Founder Sweat Equity Cofounder 315

Up and Running

NOVEMBER 20, 2018

And when Jeff Bezos started Amazon in 1994, many people had never even heard of something called the internet. Much has changed since Edison’s day, but sweat equity is still the most effective kind of startup capital. True, your business aspirations may be on a more modest scale than these world-famous brands.

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Sweat Equity Startup Lean Italy 93

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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Cofounder Equity Founder Sweat Equity 255

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. Some say the Internet is a metaphor for our brains. Starting a business may be fun, but it’s not easy. No matter how many times you’ve done it – the stresses are tremendous.

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Sweat Equity Intellectual Property Entrepreneur Viral 256

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. Some say the Internet is a metaphor for our brains. Starting a business may be fun, but it’s not easy. No matter how many times you’ve done it – the stresses are tremendous.

Sweat Equity 251

Sweat Equity Intellectual Property Startup Viral 251

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. Some say the Internet is a metaphor for our brains. Starting a business may be fun, but it’s not easy. No matter how many times you’ve done it – the stresses are tremendous.

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Sweat Equity Intellectual Property Viral Salary 222

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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Cofounder Equity Founder Sweat Equity 173

philipsmith.typepad.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

It usually takes one bad experience for people to understand that working for sweat equity is a bit 'stinky' - fool me once, shame on you, but fool me twice, shame on me. That's why it makes sense to get some combination of cash/deferred cash and equity, if you can. A must read! startupcto

Silicon Valley 40

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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. Instead, I had to scrape and claw my way through the pre-launch, startup process, and scale of my business.

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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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Software Review Startup Technical Review Vesting 79

www.chubbybrain.com

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

The team over at Overto felt the lack of at least one full-time resource was the primary reason for their failure writing : We thought we’d able to run internet service after hours. 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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Cofounder Startup Technical Cofounder CTO Hire 89

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. With the advent of the Internet, the size and address of your office is irrelevant.

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Bootstrapping Hockey Stick Sweat Equity Intellectual Property 120

www.virtuosimedia.com

MARCH 8, 2012

Internet Security. Startup internet projects often arrive slightly buggy at first and if the entrepreneur didn’t take the time to research the market in advance, the product can be dead on arrival. 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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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. Gary’s ultimate goal is to one day own the New York Jets.

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Sweat Equity New York Angel Investor Austin 81

YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 10, 2016

This is often a fantastic opportunity if you are already a skilled roofer or carpenter who can offer sweat equity. Thanks to the internet, tutoring marketplaces help you connect with students from across the world and the potential income from such businesses is quite lucrative. Virtual Assistant.

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Sweat Equity Lead Generation Demand SEO 100

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.

Small Business 121

Small Business Social Media Sweat Equity Startup 121

Up and Running

MAY 30, 2013

And when Jeff Bezos started Amazon.com in 1994, many people had never even heard of something called the Internet. Much has changed since Edison’s day, but sweat equity is still the most effective kind of startup capital. True, your business aspirations may be on a more modest scale than these world-famous brands.

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Sweat Equity Italy Startup United States 96

Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 6, 2013

Have you submitted your website to the major search engines and Internet directories? 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. What words should you build into your content to reinforce your networking goals and objectives?

Networking 78

Networking Sweat Equity Social Media .Net 78

Ben's Blog

JUNE 29, 2010

Years and years of research and sweat equity went into cracking the code, and the results are magical. people on the Internet. Dennis and team have identified over a dozen different dimensions of the Foursquare product that must interact with each other in precisely optimal ways to achieve user delight. A gigantic market.

Sweat Equity 71

Sweat Equity New York Portfolio Leadership 71

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. "The affinity score estimates how many times more likely you are to reach an audience who visits a specific site or searches for specific keywords versus an audience on the internet overall."

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Analytics Search SEO Metrics 90

techcrunch.com

FEBRUARY 19, 2010

[link] Matt Merriam It’s been clear for sometime that the venture model, particularly early stage venture, is not the best approach for funding tech startups, but the hangover from the Internet days still lingers. The internet business is a game of scale (network externalities). the article here. Share and [.] was the worst ever.

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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?

Technical Review 40

Technical Review Fractional CTO Partner CTO Hire 40

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. 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

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. Investors expect the founder and other principals to have “skin in the game,” over and above “sweat equity.”

Sweat Equity 277

Sweat Equity Intellectual Property Entrepreneur Viral 277

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. Investors expect the founder and other principals to have “skin in the game,” over and above “sweat equity.”

Sweat Equity 246

Sweat Equity Intellectual Property Viral Social Network 246

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. Investors expect the founder and other principals to have “skin in the game,” over and above “sweat equity.”

Sweat Equity 238

Sweat Equity Intellectual Property Startup Viral 238

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. Investors expect the founder and other principals to have “skin in the game,” over and above “sweat equity.”

Sweat Equity 130

Sweat Equity Intellectual Property Startup Viral 130

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. Dont blame the programmer if your internet platform or softwares not selling itself. Insightful. Thanks much.

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