Basic Training: Capital vs. Sweat Equity: What’s a Fair Buyout?
- June 10, 2015
Q: I’m in a situation where one owner is an active “sweat equity” owner; the other is inactive but provides…
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Keeping Unscrupulous Business Partners at Bay
- June 7, 2015
It’s not just business partners that can be unscrupulous, as the article “9 Ways to Keep Hucksters, Schucksters, and Slimeballs…
Read MoreBasic Training: Where, O Where, Have My Partnership Tax Returns Gone?
- June 3, 2015
When leaving a business partnership, entrepreneurs often overlook the fact that untangling the details of the business can go on…
Read MoreShareholder Agreement ‘Gotchas’
- May 30, 2015
My colleague Rush Nigut recently posted a piece in his blog about a little-known provision of Iowa law that could…
Read More“Dishing” on Business Partnerships for StartUps
- May 27, 2015
“The Restaurant” was the classic partnership pairing: Rocco DiSpirito, chef extraordinaire (or at least ego extraordinaire — which makes for…
Read MoreToday’s the Day for the Inside Scoop on Partnerships!
- May 18, 2015
Turn off the TV. Leave the e-mail alone for an hour. The kids will fend for themselves. It’s time for…
Read MoreAre You Prepared for Business Partnership?
- May 4, 2015
It’s not as simple as it seems. Business partnerships involve more than just finding a compatible playmate. Learn how to…
Read MoreAppeasing an Ex-Business Partner When You’re Doing the Exiting
- April 30, 2015
In a question that seems more appropriate for The Ethicist (the New York Times Sunday Magazine’s Q&A column on ethical…
Read MoreAvoiding a Bomb of a Business Partner
- April 27, 2015
Drum roll, please . . . I’m at T minus 16 for the launch of my latest product, The Entrepreneur’s…
Read MoreMy Partner’s Not Doing Enough Work!
- April 7, 2015
I’m about to give my teleseminar, “Help! My Partner’s Driving Me Crazy!: Building and Maintaining Effective Business Partnerships” . .…
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