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Business Prenup: What To Do Before You Start A Company With A Partner

YoungUpstarts

Here are a few tips to ensure that you and your partners start out on the right foot. A CPA provides input on tax structure and metrics, and assists with due diligence related to your industry. You need to ask questions and perform due diligence before you invest substantial time and money. Congratulations!

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[INTERVIEW] Mark Attanasio, Toronto Financial Services Executive, Managing Partner Of Hillcrest Merchant Partners

YoungUpstarts

It’s taken the Toronto executive from the world of Big 3 Accounting (as a CPA with PricewaterhouseCoopers in his early career) to Investment Banking(National Bank Financial) and capital markets (co-founding Eight Capital after leading the management buyout of Dundee Capital Markets). Dealing with the unknown can also be daunting.

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Beware The Consultant

infochachkie.com

Basing a consultant’s compensation on the incremental revenue they generate is a great example of a deal that is on The Fringe (for other creative approaches to partnering, see Agreements on The Fringe). Thus, as your startup matures, many of your operational functions can be successfully outsourced. John is a CPA and holds an M.B.A.

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The five C’s of Business Partners: a marriage without the sex

Berkonomics

In working with entrepreneurs over the years, I have learned that the difference between success and failure is often centered on the people aspects of the business rather than strategy, finance, or operations. Nowhere is this more evident than with the issues related to business partners. This relationship may last 5-20 years.

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How to Become Your Own Boss in 2015 (Webinar Recap)

Up and Running

If you don’t hear anything else I’m saying in this presentation, remember this, an unsupportive spouse can kill a business faster than a bad marketing plan, so you want to make sure that your spouse or partner is bought into what you are doing. You know this about yourself, get a partner, do yourself a favor.

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How I Started, Grew & Sold An E-commerce Business For Quarter Million Dollars ($250,000) – Part 2

Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

I then discuss the journey to search for a product distributor who would become my business partner, how and where I found one, as well as the establishment of the e-commerce portal itself. Instead of operating from a proactive approach, you relinquish control and become reactive to externalities, which at times make you completely helpless.

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Why Leave A Six Figure Corporate Job For Internet Entrepreneurship?

Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

Professionally, I am a Certified Public Accountant (CPA), may also be called a Chartered Accountant (CA) on your side of the globe, a Finance Charter-holder and a Certified Financial Planner. For example, during due diligence I did not check the condition certain equipment which broke on me within a couple months (big mistake!).