Category Archives: Partnerships

Choosing the Right Network Marketing Business Partner–Part I

Sometimes, it takes a couple of bricks to the head to learn a lesson (ergo, the month-long blogging silence).  Here…

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Basic Training: Is My Conniving Co-Owner Embezzling?

Q: I have a business partner (“John”). He is majority shareholder with a 55/45 split. We act primarily as a subcontractor…

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‘Til Death Do We Part: How Not to Get Rid of a Business Partner

From the Department of “Was that form of exit strategy written into our partnership agreement?” comes this story from the…

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Basic Training: Bums as Business Partners

Q: I have an S Corp that includes myself and my partner, 50/50 ownership. I put in all the capital and…

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Key Secrets to Solid Business Partnerships

Business partnerships are easy to begin, tough to maintain. (Equally tough is finding a webcam freeze frame that doesn’t make…

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Basic Training: Could An Agreement Save This Family Business?

Q: I have worked for my dad for more than a decade. He recently told me he wants to stop working…

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Don’t Pick Unpopular Business Partners

A lesson from Corporate America give us a slightly different take on popularity contests and alliance partners. In writing about…

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Basic Training: Ex-Partners Make the Biggest Bigmouths

Q: I can’t believe it–my former business partner has been smearing me around town! I was recently partnering with someone…

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When Your Partner Won’t Share the Loan

Yet another handy Q&A from Forbes Small Business, and this one featuring my colleague, Marian Banker.  🙂  What do you…

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Why ‘Six Degrees of Strategic Alliance’ Spurs Innovation

A recent study has found that when companies are linked in a network of strategic alliance relationships with only a…

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