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How Well Versed Are You In Startup Investor Jargon?

Startup Professionals Musings

This term refers to an initial venture-capital investment, often wrongly sought to seed early product development. In fact, most often, it is limited to seeding a startup business rollout or scale-up after development is completed from friends and family. Sweat equity. Frothy is good for entrepreneurs.

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Recruiting Startup Engineers | Femgineer

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Sweat equity or salary? If they’re coming up to speed with the product, development cycle, and company dynamics is good to let them ramp up slowly. Yes, building software is cheap and fast unlike other products. Remember people only have two hands!

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Marketing Sweat Equity: Getting Your Startup’s First Sales—Without Spending Money on Consultants and PR

Up and Running

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. Current and new customers care a lot more about product or service quality, and the value of your item.

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1TeamWeb Taps Out the Competition

Austin Startup

But, the other way Dave has found to add a dimension of his software product development and startup experience into the mix is through the development of the web service, 1TeamWeb. It’s among the highest trafficked sites in its category, providing training videos, tips and techniques.

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Beware The Consultant

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Such positions include: PR, Sales, Product Development, Lead Generation, Strategic Planning, Fund Raising, etc. Very interesting article, at my Firm we share many of your insights, starting by performance based compensation (often linked to sweat equity). link] Luis Rivera. link] Luis Rivera.

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