{"id":36,"date":"2026-06-25T11:48:56","date_gmt":"2026-06-25T11:48:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/swp-advocate-pro\/2026\/06\/25\/starting-a-business-with-a-partner-get-these-four-things-in-writing\/"},"modified":"2026-06-25T11:48:56","modified_gmt":"2026-06-25T11:48:56","slug":"starting-a-business-with-a-partner-get-these-four-things-in-writing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/swp-advocate-pro\/2026\/06\/25\/starting-a-business-with-a-partner-get-these-four-things-in-writing\/","title":{"rendered":"Starting a business with a partner: get these four things in writing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Business partnerships rarely fail over the idea. They fail over things nobody wrote down while everyone still got along.<\/p>\n<h2>Who owns what<\/h2>\n<p>Shareholdings, and what happens to them if someone leaves, stops contributing or dies.<\/p>\n<h2>Who decides what<\/h2>\n<p>Which decisions need unanimity, which need a simple majority, and who signs what.<\/p>\n<h2>Money out<\/h2>\n<p>Salaries, drawings and dividend policy, agreed before there is anything to argue about.<\/p>\n<h2>The exit<\/h2>\n<p>A valuation method and a buy-out mechanism, written when both of you are being reasonable.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Business partnerships rarely fail over the idea. They fail over things nobody wrote down while everyone still got along. Who owns what Shareholdings, and&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":37,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-corporate"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/swp-advocate-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/swp-advocate-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/swp-advocate-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/swp-advocate-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/swp-advocate-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/swp-advocate-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/swp-advocate-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/swp-advocate-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/swp-advocate-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/swp-advocate-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}