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Should you include your sweat equity in a business plan?

Berkonomics

Or you could voluntarily convert the loan into stock with a single journal entry and a stock certificate. The post Should you include your sweat equity in a business plan? If you had to replace yourself with a professional hired to duplicate your skills, what would you have to pay in salary and incentive today? A “messy” solution.

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Reflections on 2017: Michael Terpin, Transform Group International

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Just as email kicked off the reasons to online, followed by websites and instant messenger, adoption went global with Google, Amazon and Facebook. He also co-founded Direct IPO, one of the earliest equity crowdfunding companies, and founded and sold his first PR firm, The Terpin Group.

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Startup Advisors: The Good, The Bad And The Commandos

InfoChachkie

A version of this article previously appeared in The Wall Street Journal. However, nominal equity grants are appropriate to reward your Advisors for their time and attention. Such updates should ideally be done via regularly scheduled emails, rather than through ad hoc, one-on-one conversations.

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Hands-on Techniques To Avoid Hiring Wantrepreneurs

InfoChachkie

When the going gets tough (as it always does at any startup) the Wantrepreneurs get busy emailing their resumes to prospective employers. Did you just meet the shy boy who spent his High School years writing in his journal or the boisterous verbal bully who used her wit to hide her insecurities? Free Consulting.

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TechZulu Live to Premiere "TZLaw" at 5:15 p.m. PT Thursday, October 7, with IP Attorney Denise Grayson of "The Social Network"

Tech Zulu Event

Viewer "@" Reply: Quality interaction with the show's chat room visitors and responses to viewer email, Tweets and call-ins. Technology and IP law are at the forefront of the movie, and themes include common issues in startups regarding cash flow, IP rights, tech development, product design and distribution of equity.

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Should You Really be a Startup Entrepreneur?

Both Sides of the Table

So readers of tech journals gain a bias of the chances of success. Just a month ago they were all email you! One investor played chicken with me by threatening not to approve my next-round financing unless I gave him more equity. Mostly you read about fundings, product releases, big valuations, and M&A.

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Should You Really be a Startup Entrepreneur?

Both Sides of the Table

So readers of tech journals gain a bias of the chances of success. Just a month ago they were all email you! One investor played chicken with me by threatening not to approve my next-round financing unless I gave him more equity. Mostly you read about fundings, product releases, big valuations, and M&A.