- You can facilitate change and even catalyze it in others but you can never be the change in someone else.
- Choose someone that complements your skills.
- You need a partner who challenges the status quo, who wants to be number one and can tough out the difficult and lean times
- Don’t confuse talent or capacity with achievement
- You should share a sense of vision and values but not have overlapping skills
- Choose a partner that has connections.
- Think about the skills you need in a partner and the personality traits you can and can’t work with
- Pick someone who is as excited and as driven as you are to make this business idea a success
- Evaluate potential partners without regard to emotional ties or friendship.
- Find a Partner That Shares Your Values, Entrepreneurial Spirit, and Vision.
- Find a partner who compliments your skills and experience instead of a clone of yourself
- Don’t go into partnership with someone who doesn’t put money, or something of equivalent financial value, into your deal.
- Each should also provide a list of professional and personal references the other can talk to before entering into any agreements.
- When you do choose a business partner, clearly define the function each of you will fulfill in the company.
- Stick to what you know, and let your partners take charge of what they know and are good at.
- Successful entrepreneurs are extremely resilient. He or she has to be excited and determined to keep going when everyone else wants to stop
- The very best predictor of future performance is past performance.
- Choose a business partner who has made personal development a long-term goal.
- Ask about his self-help library! What are his favorite books? Authors? What is he currently reading now? What is he working on learning and developing now?
- They should be comfortable with risk, flexible, and willing to pivot wherever and whenever necessary.
