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Finding the right business partners

Finding the right business partners

From the course: Developing Business Partnerships

Finding the right business partners

- Think of some of your biggest life decisions, whether or not to go to college, where to go to college, where to live, who to live with. For all of these decisions, there are limitless possibilities. Business partners are the same way. Your company's business partners possess a wide variety of capabilities, interests, strategies and yes, personalities. And just like when you make your own big life decisions, you need to do careful research and reflection when it comes to choosing partners for your company. If your job is to create and develop partnerships, you need to take some time to figure out the right fit. In this video, I'm going to discuss three key factors that will help you to find the right partners for your company. As you assess potential partners in light of these factors, you'll be able to rank them from must have to nice to have to maybe next year. Start with business fit. You figure this out by asking how…

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