Workbook
The Founder's Partnership Workbook
A Workbook for Building a Business Without Destroying the Relationship You Built It With
Co-founder relationships break not from bad ideas, but from things never named.
For co-founders who want to name what their partnership runs on — values, authority, equity, and exit conditions — before pressure makes the conversation impossible.
The Name It First Experience
The equity split is in a document. Everything else is not. The assumptions about decisions, commitment, success, failure, and the conditions under which the right answer is to stop. This workbook moves two founders through those conversations before pressure forces them. You produce the Founder's Social Contract: a signed document both founders wrote and keep. The output is not legal protection. It is alignment.
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Sample questions
- What have you and your co-founder built that you are most proud of — the thing that would not exist without the specific partnership you have?
- What decision about your business partnership have you been avoiding because naming it out loud would require you to change something?
- What would The Founder Partnership Agreement say — explicitly and in writing — about who owns what, who decides what, and what happens when the partnership stops working?
Research basis
Wasserman (Founder's Dilemmas, co-founder conflict) / Maslach (burnout, values misalignment) / Tuckman (team development) / Edmondson (psychological safety)
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