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Building a Business

How Your Business Can Build Lasting Partnerships With Nonprofits

Building a long-term partnership with a nonprofit can be great for your business and the community but a lasting, meaningful alliance can't be bought with a large check.

By Jason Kulpa

Building a Business

7 Strategies to Help You Pick, Then Develop, the Perfect Partner

By Stephen Key

Business Accounting

3 Ways to Bring On a Silent Partner

By Mark J. Kohler

Business Accounting

Everything You Need to Know About Business Partnerships

By Mark J. Kohler

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.

By Kelli Richards

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.

By Michel Koopman

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.

By Ted Prodromou

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.

By David Ciccarelli

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.

By Leslie Barber

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.

By David Stubenvoll

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.

By Adam Callinan

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.

By Kumar Srivastava

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.

By Deborah Mitchell

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

Marketing

9 Elements of an Irresistible Business Pitch

Once you've mastered the essentials of your pitch, you can make it as unique as you and what you have to offer.

By Ellen DaSilva and Alex Taub

Marketing

My Business Partner, My Spouse — The View From the Husband’s Side

The other half of a leadership and marketing consulting firm describes the keys to running a business with the person you married.

By Aneil Mishra