Workbook
Before You Sign the Partnership Agreement
A Workbook for the Conversations That Determine Whether Your Business Partnership Survives Year One
This workbook produces a documented co-founder agreement — covering every scenario the partnership will actually face.
For the person about to enter a business partnership who has never been asked the 40 questions that predict whether the partnership survives. Money, decision authority, exit terms, conflict plan, equity splits, and what happens when one person wants out.
The Name It First Experience
Trust is not an operating agreement — and every partnership test comes after you shook hands. Before You Sign the Partnership Agreement walks co-founders through the questions that predict whether a business partnership survives: how decisions get made, how equity gets split, what the conflict plan is, who has final authority, what an exit looks like, and what happens when one person wants out before the other one does. It is for the person about to enter a business partnership who wants the operating agreement to reflect what they actually agreed to — not just who gets what percentage, but how the partnership actually works when things get hard. You finish with a documented co-founder operating agreement — every scenario named, every term agreed, both signatures on the same understanding.
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Sample questions
- What do you assume this partnership agreement covers — and have you compared that assumption to your partner's?
- What would happen if one of you wanted to leave in year three — do you have a plan, or just a hope?
- What do you need from this partner that you have not yet said explicitly?
Research basis
Partnership research / organizational psychology / conflict resolution / business formation law (informed, not legal advice)
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