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Problems with partner
A little background:
A few months ago, I approached a good friend of mine with a nice offer:To make apps for a specific platform along with marketing and distributing them. He knew very little about ...
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How do I go from 100% ownership to partnership?
My question is not about tax and legal procedures (I'll let my CPA and lawyer handle those), but rather about TRUST.
Trust or... CHECKS & BALANCES.
I am a programmer who owns a small Internet ...
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Sharing workload between partners when I am the only developer?
I have been dipping my toes into a web-based startup idea with two others.
They approached me with the original seed of an idea, but neither are developers. So I would be building the (fairly large ...
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Is a 10% referral fee very popular in many trades?
Is a 10% referral fee very popular in many trades?
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What if your partner seems to be a bad person?
Greetings. Currently I work for a bunch of companies as the CIO and recently I've been offered a partnership at a startup company. I decided to take it as a part-time, for the start, and then move on ...
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Multi-Member LLC - question setting up my EIN
Thanks in advance for any help answering this question.
I have already set up a multi-member LLC in New York State. I attempted to register for an EIN as an LLC but was told by the IRS that I would ...
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Forming Partnership - I need directions and guidance to make the right decision at early stage of a startup
I'm a programmer and developer - and that is what i'm good at, although i do have some self-claimed ( :) ) Entrepreneur skills and Managerial traits since i'm already running a Web Development Company ...
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Partnering on an idea with 2 separate and distinct companies
I am in a current situation that I need some advice on, I think it will be easiest to explain with a simplified example. I am involved in a startup company that specializes in software development ...
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What type of agreement to secure an intent to buy?
I worked with a new partner to create a customer before we signed a var agreement.(we had a NDA though)
We sold the customer our software but the actual contract for the sale will not take place ...
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Dealing with wifes/husbands? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How to start a business and not destroy your marriage?
Not everyone starts their business when they're in/fresh out of college. How do you deal with your spouses and ...
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Innovation, collaboration and knowledge sharing
I have an innovative idea that I want to put onto the market, but I still have to develop the idea into a product.
I know a few companies that have the knowledge I am looking for.
What is the best ...
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Why don't companies collaborate on innovative projects?
I am doing research about collaboration in projects.
If a company has an innovative idea that they want to put on the market, but they don't have the knowledge to develop the idea, then they are ...
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Statistically what is the most often found number of original software startup founders?
I wonder what is the typical, most often found, number of original founders of software startup ? I mean the number of people that come up with the idea not the one that put their money in it.
The ...
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Finished developing product getting ready to launch. Need to take on partners but how?
I have finished developing my product. Website, domain is all setup. Billing system is in place.
I have yet to incorporate.
I am planning on incorporating by myself as the founder.
Then I am ...
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Where is a good resource to learn about equity investing?
My partner and I currently run a website and we both have a 50 percent stake. Some investors want to come on board and also want to help us promote it. In return they would get a smaller equity ...
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How to share income of selling iPhone apps with a friend/partner
I plan to develop an iPhone app with my friend. Each of us is specialized in different parts of the app. For example, I am responsible for interface design and server-side programming while my friend ...
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Can A Legal Immigrant do Seed Funding?
I'm a legal immigrant. I want to seed fund a start up. Is that possible?
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Partnership Failure
What's a fair share to give someone in a company that was going to be a partner at one point? I no longer want them as a partner because they didn't have what it takes to add the value I was ...
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Pre BETA inputs for SAAS product
We are building a SAAS based application for temp staffing firms and we are done with 70% of the application. We are looking for some early feedback and then go on to build the 30% of the ...
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Need advice on how to structure a partnership
I have recently been approached by a person, who is both an investor and the project idea originator. We are talking about a tech start up, where I am the software developer, project manager, and ...
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As pertaining to a sole proprietorship or partnership, how much am I legal responsible from a business perspective?
For instance, if someone sues me because they do not like the product offered or if someone else sues me because of a contract violation. How much is the owners responsible for (in this case me) and ...
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Tips on getting partners in the USA
We are a small startup located in Sweden, but our product, soon to be released is of course just as interesting in america as in Sweden. We will be looking for partnering with consulting firms ...
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Possible dangers in specific startup percentage scheme
first of all I need to tell you about my background. I am an Internet/Software engineer, came up with a great idea and little knowledge do I have about business.
Fulfilling the need for a partner in ...
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What do you use/do to stay in touch with business partners that are in a different geographical location?
I'm looking for a good way to stay in touch with the hosts of my Momtrepreneur Exchanges around the country. There's a host in each of our 23 cities so far. It's a pile of people in different time ...
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STARTUP: partnership or hire?
Ok I invested in my business and built the software, now got to run it!
If I hire my friend, to do all this business, and I do all things technical.
How should I pay him?
1) salary
2) with ...
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How do you convince a partner to put in the same amount of work?
I have a partner for our small business and over the past few months he has been putting in less and less time in the business. Its a small business we both operate as mail order. I handle the ...
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How to split profit in a property management business inc between two owners?
My friend and I are starting a property management business (inc). How do we determine profit sharing? We charge property owner a set percentage as a fee. We are thinking 50/50 on everything losses ...
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General partnership or joint venture with global online company?
I want to establish a partnership with a company abroad that offers online services through their portal in few countries worldwide. I would like to leverage their online platform to provide services ...
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Sharing ad revenue with partner on same website
I am considering starting a website with a partner. Revenues will be purely ad related.
Is it ok to use two different Adsense IDs on the same website/webpages? I mean:
would that comply with the ...
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“One Man Startup” - Should a add people before going out looking for funding?
i've been working on a project for the last year or so and during that time 4 out of 5 partners have left, leaving only me. I've turned the project into a modest success and have now received some ...
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For tax purposes what is best currency to collect?
I have a canadian company selling to a European company who's currency is GBP.
For tax purposes should I sell to them in Canadian dollars or should they pay me in pounds?
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Developing a business proposition
I need some help as I have some difficulty in structuring a business proposition for an additional partner.
we are starting one of the first online learning company which is region specific, two ...
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OEM VS Reseller how do I build the business case for it?
So here's the dilemna. I have a software product that is a value add to ERP system for mid to large organizations. I found a reseller and we sold to a large customer our product customer as an add ...
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Can I list Bizspark as a partner?
I'm forming a software/web development company where we develop products and also help other business develop theirs. Microsoft offered us BizSpark membership. Is Microsoft now a partner to us or just ...
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Moving from 2 to 3 founders ? A good idea?
With a team of 2, we have been busy building a new e-commerce business for the last 4 months. Hopefully we will launch the project in the next 2 months.
We are trying a new concept sales model based ...
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What type of legal agreement makes sense for joint venture?
I have a reseller who would like to buy a licensed version of our software product and share the revenues we make on the joint sale of the product within a specific territory.
What type of agreement ...
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Is there a way around a partner paying additional income tax in an acquisition?
I'm interested in bringing on a partner (for his development abilities) for a site I'm working on.
I already have an LLC and would prefer to keep this site under that LLC. Then, I'd offer in a ...
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Switching from a partnership to an LLC
I started my company as a General Partnership - partly to avoid fees while still ramping up, and partly because I wasn't foreseeing large revenue in the intial year.
Time went by, and now I need to ...
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Partner seeking/matchmaking site
Well, I guess that same story goes around for some time - I have a pretty good software and have some market for it, but I guess that it could find its use in various targeted niches. It has to do ...
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What is My Business Worth?
I have recently approached my business partner with a request to buy out his membership in our LLC. His involvement as of late is declining and a buy out was something we had planned on from day 1. I ...
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Where can I find a developer who would be interested in a partnership rather than up-front payment for work?
I have a site that I'd like to build in PHP/MySQL and preferably using CodeIgniter, but I don't have the time that I need to devote to building the site. I'd like to find a developer who is willing ...
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Started with 4 partners, equal financial investment. I've done 90% of the work, startup is now doing well and they now want a say. Please advise
I started a site with 4 friends about a year and a half ago, I'm the only technical person of the lot, we all put in an equal amount of $$$, we spent most of the first year in discussions and sending ...
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Partnership questions
I am working on the project which is in its pre beta stage. This is a web based service that allows to distribute some content in a printed format. I got several offers from investors and printing ...
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What can I offer a partner? (I don't have cash)
If I start a S or C Corp what benefit packages can I offer potential employees and how would I ramp them in?
I don't have the cash to give them a salary so I need an official way to give them X ...
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Tax implications for buying out my LLP partner?
I am buying out my co-founder of our 3 year old company that we started as a hobby/second job. We are profitable (although you definitely couldn't live off the profits alone!).
Anyway, we've ...
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Where to meet potential partners / angel investors?
I've been running a nice dating site for the last 4 months and it's growing quite well and hope to be in alexa top 100k by end of year. So far it's only me doing pretty much everything, but I want to ...
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Selling through VARs and Systems Integrators
We're developing an extension to a commercial open source enterprise software product. Most customers of the product we're extending buy it trough one of its system integration partners.
To reach ...
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What makes a great business partner?
So the question is pretty basic, what are good qualities in a business partner? As a young freelancer I want to expand my business into a much larger company and I know I will likely need to partner ...
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Need advice on partnership issues
There are 3 partners in my company. One of them has been causing some problems lately and has made some mistakes that has caused problems for many of our company's clients. I have had to send out ...
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What percentage should a programming partner get?
I have a web app idea and am considering offering to partner with someone who would code the app. I have most of the intricacies of the idea figured out, it's pretty simple but I am not a hacker so I ...
