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Why I Have Sex With My Co-founder
Your relationship with your founding partner is as intense and consuming as a marriage. My advice: choose your partner as carefully as you chose your spouse. Read more
Partner or Not: How to Decide
Bringing in partners to help launch a new business is the ultimate risk and reward proposition. These questions will help to ensure that the relationship is ... Read more
Is Your Partner the Problem? 4 Questions to Ask
Bad chemistry between partners can break an otherwise solid company. These questions can help you tell whether you've got the right co-pilot. Read more
10 Things I Want in a Business Partner
You don't have to agree on everything. If you do, you haven't found the right person. Read more
Our Perfect Merger (and Acquisition)
In a single year, a couple got married, got pregnant, and founded a fast-growing company. Read more
Do You Need a Partner, or Not?
How do you make a fair partnership agreement for you and your company? Mike Michalowicz, author of The Toilet Paper Entrepreneur advises. Watch video
10 Questions to Ask Yourself Before Picking a Partner
It's natural to want a partner to share your experience with, but make sure you run through all the possible implications of your generosity. Read more
8 Questions to Ask Before Incorporating Your Business Partnership
So you've found a business partner to help make your idea a reality. Be sure to ask yourselves these eight questions before incorporating. Read more
Divvying Up the Business
Making sure you have a good ownership agreement Read more
Speed Dating for Co-founders
Networking events such as FounderDating and Startup Weekend help entrepreneurs meet potential co-founders. Read more
5 Reasons It Might Be Time to Find a New Business Partner
Business partnerships are great—when they work. Here are five reasons it might be time to split up with your business partner. Read more
How to Evaluate a Joint Venture
Joint ventures offer companies the opportunity to quickly gain access to new markets or technologies. However, consider these eight tips before diving in to ... Read more
3 Ways to Test Your Business Partner
Having different lifestyle priorities can put a real strain on a partnership. Here are some tips to make sure you don’t get paired up with the wrong people. Read more
Is Your Shotgun Partnership About to Backfire?
A business partnership pre-nup is always a good idea — but not all agreements are as fair as they seem. Read more
How to Structure a Partnership
Partnerships are incredibly common--and incredibly hard to sustain. Here's how to set up a partnership that is equitable, efficient, and mutually rewarding. Read more
Getting By with a Little Help from Their Friends
Many young entrepreneurs enlist partners to start their companies, rather than trying to go it alone. So what's the downside? Read more
It's Not Easy Being Green
Jeffrey Hollender and Alan Newman disagreed about strategy, fought bitterly -- and created two successful companies. They'd set out to change the world, but ... Read more
How to Work With a Partner (Year After Year After Year)
Advice from Penn Jillette of the comedy team Penn & Teller on how to create a partnership that endures. Read more
Is My Partnership Fair?
Is my partnership fair? Plus: Protecting your bright ideas; and buying versus leasing new technology. Read more
We haven't started our business, but my partners want compensation. What should I do?
An inc.com visitor grapples with whether or not she should allow her partners to take compensation -- before the company has even gotten off the ground. Read more
My partner is leaving my business. What's a good strategy for going it alone?
Running a One-Person Business mentors Paul and Sarah Edwards tackle what to do when your business partner wants out. Read more
Partnership Basics
Read this article to gain a general understanding of the purposes partnerships serve and the different types of partnerships that can be formed. Read more
Partnership: Advantages and Disadvantages
Is a partnership is the best structure for your business? A list of the pros and the cons Read more
Why Partnerships Fail
To forge successful strategic alliances, it pays to know what doesn't work. A few common situations can jeopardize alliances. Read more
Happy Endings
Considering a business partnership? It's best to start by planning how it will end. Read more
Partners on the Edge
Brett Cosor and Jeff Studley, co-owners of CPR MultiMedia Solutions, came to dislike each other so much they brought in a marriage counselor to help them thr... Read more
The Partnership Route
Joint ventures with foreign markets can bring new frontiers in technology and management. Read more
Splitting Heirs (1988)
Nearly a hundred years ago, Lorenzo Vaughn planted a time bomb in his company. Finally, it went off Read more
Why Partnerships Break Up
If he'd observed these three principles, says the author, his own partnership might still be alive. Read more
Partnership Agreement
Partnership agreements are written documents that explicitly detail the relationship between the business partners and their individual obligations and co... Read more
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