Category Archives: Partnerships

What are buy-sell agreements meant to accomplish?

Now I’m not going to summarize the whole of Christopher Mercer’s book on Buy/Sell Agreements for you, but he raises…

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Small-Small Partnerships Equals Big Returns

From Entrepreneur.com (via MSNBC.com), comes Chris Pettila’s article on how partnering with other entrepreneurial companies can help all of you…

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Stop Selling; Start Partnering

Never mind the book (although I’m sure it’s great) — here’s a delightful and intelligent book review of Larry Wilson’s Stop…

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Jerked Around by a Business Partner

From the “No good deed goes unpunished” department: Q: I deposited more than $20,000 into my business partner’s account under…

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Raising Capital from Family and Friends

They say that “fools rush in where angels fear to tread,” and the same applies to raising capital for your…

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Peeking Under the Hood of Your Strategic Alliance

A strategic alliance offers a lot of promise to companies both local and global.  The promise of new markets.  The…

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Of Icebergs and Elephants

One of the advantages to blogging on business partnership issues is that it’s a wonderful conversation catalyst. Everyone has a…

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Making Alliances through Social Networking Sites

Here’s one of my pet peeves about sites like Facebook: people who hardly know me who want to join my…

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What The Zombies Can Tell Us about Strategic Alliances

Zombies?  No, not in the George-Romero-Night-of-the-Living-Dead kind of zombies.  Zombies as in the British-rock-band-from-the-1960s kind of zombies. As Lewis Green…

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Tips for Negotiating a Partnership (or Alliance) Agreement

Many thanks to Anthony Cerminaro’s BizBangBuzz blog (say that ten times fast!) for finding a great tidbit on highlights to negotiate…

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