Building a Business
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The Internet has flattened the world, but also is fraught with danger. Luckily, the Web has tools to protect yourself and your business.
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Business Accounting
3 Ways to Bring On a Silent Partner
Before you accept financing or sign an investing agreement, be sure you know how to protect your company and get what you want out of the deal.
Business Accounting
Everything You Need to Know About Business Partnerships
Before you even start thinking about bringing another business partner on board, find out what this legal expert has to say about the pitfalls of partnerships.
Building a Business
How to Protect Your Company From Your Business Partner’s Divorce
Make sure problems in one partner's personal life don't wreak professional havoc.
By Steph Wagner
Building a Business
This Mobile Seed Fund Just Added Two More Partners
Silicon Valley-based Tandem has added former Google and Yahoo executive Shashi Seth and co-founder of couchsurfing.com Daniel Hoffer as partners.
By Kate Taylor
Building a Business
5 Secrets on Getting the Most Out of Partnerships
Forming strategic partnerships not only creates a powerful reciprocal network, but also propels you toward your goals, exposes you to new insights and optimizes the time and energy you invest in relationships.
Building a Business
10 Steps to Forming Long-Lasting Strategic Partnerships
From small-company owners to enterprise executives, partnerships are a delicate yet necessary part of any successful business strategy.
Marketing
Finished Your Marketing Plan? It’s Time to Share It With Your Partners.
You didn't build your business alone, so write a business brief that lets your other players know what to do next for your marketing.
By Jim Joseph
Building a Business
4 Partnership Secrets for Hypergrowth Businesses
Learn when to partner -- and when to walk away.
By Justin Gray
Online Presence
Everything You Need to Know About Setting Up Your Company Page on LinkedIn
Find out what you can showcase -- and how -- on your company's LinkedIn page to attract new employees and new business.
Business Accounting
The Two Biggest Money Problems That Can Ruin a Business Partnership
Don't let money matters destroy your relationship.
By Steph Wagner
Building a Business
Cultivating Relationships With Vendors Opens a World of Opportunity
When managed correctly, the relationship with a key vendor is a powerful partnership you can work together to enhance.
Business News
From Bacon and Eggs to Parcels and Packages: Waffle House Joins Roadie in Sharing Economy Partnership
The ubiquitous diner has partnered with an Atlanta-based startup, offering its restaurants as a meeting place for the peer-to-peer delivery service's users.
By Carly Okyle
Building a Business
3 Things Happy Marriages and Successful Business Partnerships Have in Common
The levels of trust and financial entanglement with business partners and spouses are close. What you do to make them work are similiar, too.
Building a Business
Maybe You Should Send Your Co-Founder a Valentine This Year
There are many similarities between finding your one-true love and finding a business partner compatible for the long haul.
Building a Business
5 Signs That You Need to Split From Your Partner
It can be hard to identify issues until you're in action and knee deep in executing on the business.
Building a Business
13 Tips to Create the Perfect Partnership
Creating the perfect partnership takes understanding, significant effort and above all a sincere desire to make it work.
By Stephen Key
Building a Business
Monster Sues Apple’s Beats Over Alleged Fraud
Audio-equipment maker Monster, which helped create Beats by Dre headphones, says it was unfairly cut out before Beats was sold to Apple last year.
By Reuters
Building a Business
The 3 Secrets to Building Successful Third-Party Partnerships
Sometimes the shortest path to success is not by focusing merely on internal efforts but by partnering with another business to pursue an opportunity together.
By Paul Mandell
Building a Business
Before You Form a Partnership, Make Sure Your Bases Are Covered
No man is an island -- not even you, fearless entrepreneur. And sometimes, you need a partner to help your business take off, but you need to be careful.
By Mike Kappel
Building a Business
3 Signs That Your Partner Program Is Going Belly Up
How to ensure your partner program is set up for success, rather than ending up a total dud.
Thought Leaders
Are You Getting Your Money’s Worth From Disagreements?
Consider how to truly listen to another colleague. You'll arrive at better discussions, decisions and results.
By Zeke Adkins
Building a Business
The 5 False Expectations That Could Destroy Big-Brand Partnerships
On the surface, startups and big-name brands are businesses with a similar overarching goal: to make money. But crack the exterior, and you'll find that's about all they have in common.
By Jason Kulpa
Building a Business
5 Things to Do Before Saying ‘I Do’ to a Business Partner
When you meet a potential partner your personalities may click and your goals may be identical, but to have a successful relationship, clarity is key.
Building a Business
Why I Violated My Promise to Never Have a Business Partner
Teaming up with another player can combine complementary skills and realize synergies at a startup.
By Josh Steimle
Building a Business
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly on Partnering With Your Partner
Starting a business with your significant other can make a lot of sense, until it doesn't. Consider these pros and cons before jumping in.
By Carol Roth
Building a Business
3 Lessons Businesses Can Learn from Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie
Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie's secret wedding ceremony offers surprising insight into business success.
By Carly Okyle