How should my business partner and I split the ownership and income of our start up? [more inside]
posted by anonymous on Dec 7, 2009 - 16 answers

How does the tech person in a business partnership avoid getting screwed over by the business person? [more inside]
posted by giggleknickers on Nov 15, 2009 - 13 answers

How to setup a business partnership in an old-school brick-and-mortar manufacturing business between four friends - two of whom will be the major investors (say A and B), one guy is partial investor who will work full time but is new to this business and doing business in general (C ie: me), and the last guy is the one (D) with the entire business knowledge. He is in the field for past 7 years, already running a profitable trading shop (buying in Saudi, selling in India) in this field and is interested in expanding by setting up 'our own' manufacturing facility in Saudi. [more inside]
posted by forwebsites on Nov 4, 2009 - 10 answers

My business partner is driving me crazy - I always and constantly have negative thoughts about him. How do I resolve this? [more inside]
posted by ChabonJabon on Oct 5, 2009 - 11 answers

How do I find a good technical co-founder for my startup? (I am not the worthless ideas-only guy!) [more inside]
posted by anonymous on Feb 23, 2009 - 7 answers

How do I deal with a friend involved in a collaborative project that I fear will not take it as seriously as I will? [more inside]
posted by anonymous on Jan 20, 2009 - 8 answers

How can I meet another passionate person to help me with a project? [more inside]
posted by Jonsnews on Nov 19, 2008 - 5 answers

Are we a monogamous species? [more inside]
posted by netbros on Jul 14, 2008 - 30 answers

I am breaking up with my business partner. How do I best do this? [more inside]
posted by SoulOnIce on Jun 25, 2008 - 11 answers

I am looking to form a partnership, Company A, with someone to buy a franchise. A couple of points to note are: This type of franchise only exists in order to each partner to do business (i.e. do deals) within the franchise territory. [more inside]
posted by thinktwice on Apr 15, 2008 - 1 answer

TurboTaxFilter: Trying to figure out where to enter "Nonresident's share of net tax paid by the manager of the partnership" for a North Carolina return using TurboxTax 2007 Home & Business [more inside]
posted by doomtop on Apr 13, 2008 - 2 answers

Tell me about your experience with investment partnerships. (Multiple questions inside.) [more inside]
posted by ijoshua on Jan 26, 2008 - 2 answers

How do you end a partnership gracefully--without a lot of hard feelings? [more inside]
posted by rocket_johnny on Oct 31, 2007 - 26 answers

I have an idea for a web project. It may have some commercial potential eventually but will basically be a night project for me and the other folks involved. Think of how MetaFilter got its start... hand-rolled / bootstrapped, whatever. My question is: how do you agree on who gets what share of any proceeds down the road? In particular, the design work will be heavy up front but tapering off after launch. Is it insulting to offer a designer a 5% share for a few days work? Does everyone brought in need to be made an equal partner? I'm sure the answer to that is no, but I'm not sure what the alternatives are. Paying people cash for work is not an option. There is no cash, and everyone involved is willing to invest some time and wait for results. The only thing is that some of us will be investing more time than others... so what to do?
posted by scarabic on Sep 5, 2007 - 7 answers

A friend and I, and possibly others, are interested in pooling resources to buy a nice Seattle home as an investment and to live in (for now). Any experience/tips/quasi-legal advice on creating a small real estate trust or corporation to do this? [more inside]
posted by hincandenza on Feb 9, 2007 - 4 answers

How do I deal with a business partnership dissolution that is rapidly getting incredibly ugly? (Both emotionally and legally.) [more inside]
posted by anonymous on Jan 20, 2007 - 15 answers

Me and mine are moving in together. How do 2 single wage earners merge their $$ incomes and outflows in a way that keeps it simple for bookkeeping and tax returns? [More] [more inside]
posted by Fupped Duck on Sep 25, 2006 - 21 answers

Three friends from college bought a house together to live in and for investment reasons 2 years ago. We have all invested different amounts of $ into the house and are now trying to figure out the % ownership we each have so when we go to sell we can fairly split up the profits. Any ideas... [more inside]
posted by retro88 on Aug 14, 2006 - 19 answers

Should I bring someone on as a business partner? [more inside]
posted by subpixel on Jul 20, 2006 - 6 answers

Good book for learning about setting up partnerships? [more inside]
posted by blueyellow on Sep 9, 2005 - 5 answers

My small business is considering starting a partnership / joint venture with a smaller scale operation based in Asia (we are in the US). They have good connections, we have a good organization to do the work. Can anyone recommend a website or book that offers good advice to those considering partnerships / joint ventures?
posted by extrabox on Jul 25, 2005 - 3 answers