Partnerships


Definitions Behind Business Name Jargon

One reason the law of business names often seems confusing is that the subject is riddled with lots of arcane and often overlapping legal jargon. For exam...  Read story

Partnership Basics

A partnership is an association of two or more persons, known as general partners, who act as co-owners of a business and operate it for profit. The other...  Read story

Rd Partnerships Come Of Age

They may never replace traditional venture capital, but for some companies these deals are a better way to raise money.  Read story

How To Fuel Growth Through Limited Partners

Tom Keaveney kept control of his business by growing with tax-sheltered partnership dollars.  Read story

The Equity Partnership As A Seed For Start-ups

Since the limited partners get the early losses, they demand less equity from founders at the time of tax-free conversion.  Read story

The Family Cache

By forming new corporations or partnerships with younger relatives, owners of closely held companies can save on income and estate taxes without affecting th...  Read story

Family Limited Partnership

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Joint Ventures

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Partnership Agreement

Partnership agreements are written documents that explicitly detail the relationship between the business partners and their individual obligations and co...  Read story

Partnership

Related Terms: Limited Liability Comp...  Read story

The Partnership Route

Joint ventures with foreign markets can bring new frontiers in technology and management.  Read story

Look Ma--No Bankers

Manufacturer of candy boxes learns why banks take a dim of limited partnerships.  Read story

David and Goliath Do a Deal

A small legal software company teams up with IBM to help sell its software package.  Read story

Family Limited Partnerships

Advice on creating family limited partnerships.  Read story

How do I make a joint venture work?

Leadership & Strategy mentor Keith Lamb responds: We at the Lamb Group have had both good and bad experiences with joint ventures....  Read story

A Limited Success

Limited partnerships still offer an attractive source of capital for growing companies -- provided you can figure out how to sell the deal.  Read story

Research Consortia: Who Loses?

Just when you thought you had the competition cornered, you hear footsteps behind you. And it isn't just another gutsy rival spoiling for a fight. It is ...  Read story

Finding the Perfect Business Partner

Hewlett and Packard. Sears and Roebuck. Johnson and Johnson. These names so quickly conjure up images of corporate success it's easy to...  Read story

SBA Offers More Help to Inner-City Firms

The Small Business Administration this week unveiled another program aimed at boosting support for inner-city businesses, the third in a series of initiat...  Read story

Watch Those VCs Smile

The top 10 venture capital firms of 1993.  Read story

Raising Money through Equity Investments

Equity investors buy a piece of your business. They become co-owners and share in the fortunes andmisfortunes of your business. Like you, they can make or...  Read story

Choosing Strategic Partners that Really Partner

Ever feel like a six-armed octopus? "If I only had two more arms, I could accomplish so much more!" Every entrepreneur is a master multitasker, always doi...  Read story

IBM Unveils New Virtualization Adoption Toolset

IBM has launched a new set of tools to help its business partners identify opportunities for small businesses to save on IT investment by consolidating and v...  Read story

When to Stop Bootstrapping It

It may feel good to have launched your company without outside funding. But there comes a time when a financial partner is the only way to continue to grow.  Read story

A New Pool Of Capital To Help Fund Research

As more and more companies turn to research and development limited partnerships as a source of capital, Wall Street is starting to reach out further for ...  Read story

A New Twist On Limited Partnerships

The research and development limited partnership is hardly a standard capital-raising device, but exotic variations on it have already begun to emerge.Read story

The Possibilities of Partnering

It's easier to go from 0 to 60 miles per hour in business when you have partners. Reinventing wheels, growing each piece of your business on your own, and...  Read story

How Can I Choose Compatible Joint Venture Partners?

Lisa Jacobson, president of Manhattan-based Stanford Coaching Inc., asks potential joint venture partners to take the same behavioral test she uses ...  Read story

Benchmark: Partnering for Products

Some results of a survey of 437 fast-growth companies about collaborating with outside corporate partners.  Read story

IBM Introduces New Business Partners Incentive

IBM (NYSE:IBM) has launched a new initiative to encourage their Business Partners to increase revenue and improve customer service. Grow Your Business wit...  Read story

The Enemy Within

Tim Wagner and his partners were so successful in challenging Procter Gamble for a share of the diaper market that they never saw the threat from...  Read story

Small Business Consortia

Related Terms: Cooperatives Business consortia are a...  Read story

Details, Details, Details

Various business people tell what it's like to manage a strategic partnership.  Read story

Go East, Young Man

First-person account of a joint venture in Eastern Europe.  Read story

For Women Only

Descriptions of four groups dedicated to investing in woman-owned companies.  Read story

Small Business/Large Business Relationships

Many small business owners see large businesses exclusively in competitive terms. For small enterprises that compete directly with larger companies, this ...  Read story

Robert Wood Johnson Was Inspired

Robert Wood Johnson was inspired after hearing a British surgeon's speech citing airborne germs as the leading cause of infections in hospitals. In 1886, ...  Read story

License to Thrive

The right partnership can drive sales -- while reducing your workload.  Read story

Growing Your Business by Going Global

Lessons from a company that leapt unwarily into foreign-distribution, plus intelligence on Saudi Arabian markets.  Read story

Beyond Getting to Yes

As business owners, some days it may seem as if we spend all of our time negotiating. There are suppliers to manage, employees to satisfy, funding to pur...  Read story