Many people start businesses and have partners, such as friends, couples or relatives. At the beginning, everyone was enthusiastic and rarely calculated the details, so some potential hidden dangers were left.
In the book "Entrepreneurship Risk Management", a case was recorded:
Liu Jian and Zhang Hang co-founded an Internet company, and agreed that Liu Jian would invest 300,000 yuan and Zhang Hang invested 200,000 yuan. When investing in actual investment, Liu Jian paid out all 300,000 yuan, Zhang Hang paid out 100,000 yuan first, and planned to pay the other 100,000 yuan in three months.
After three months, the company invested a lot, but benefited very little. So Liu Jian asked Zhang Hang to take out the remaining 100,000. Not only did Zhang Hang refuse to pay the money, he also wanted to withdraw from the company and asked Liu Jian to return the previous 100,000 to him.
The two people had a conflict, and the company went bankrupt.
For entrepreneurs, when doing business in partnership, they should pay attention to the following matters:
First, they should sign the partnership agreement to clarify the responsibilities, rights and obligations of all parties.
Secondly, avoid unnecessary property troubles. In this regard, three issues should be clarified: property ownership (funds, houses, land, labor, experience, skills, etc.), rights and responsibilities of partnership property, and how to deal with property defects.
In addition, when a couple is a shareholder, be careful of "confusion of personality". The property of natural person shareholders should be clearly distinguished from the company's property as much as possible, and customers should not be allowed to remit funds to their private accounts.
fourth, pay attention to equity allocation .
There is a snack bar that became popular shortly after it opened. This store has just been open for a year, and someone has invested 40 million yuan, and it has developed very well. Later, a person in the entrepreneurial team was proposed to the team. After he went out, he copied the same model and used the previous brand name, which soon became popular again. The other people were unwilling to do so, and the matter was brought to court.
When starting a business, if the rules of procedure, interest distribution mechanism, exit mechanism, and competition mechanism in the business process are agreed upon, similar things can be avoided.
Fifth, when clarifying the responsibilities and power of partners, three methods can be adopted:
one person, one vote management model - this method helps unity, but is not conducive to the concentration of opinions;
allocates decision-making power according to the proportion of investment - this method is conducive to the concentration of opinions, but is easy to cause decision-making errors;
allocates decision-making power based on technical expertise - this method is conducive to the development of technology and is easy to ignore corporate benefits.
The process of entrepreneurship is full of traps. A little bit of attention will add obstacles to the development of the company and ruin your enthusiasm and years of hard work. The book "Entrepreneurship Risk Management" is a reference book suitable for start-ups.
The book involves all aspects of the entrepreneurship process: site selection, personnel, management, product production, contracts, markets, investment and mergers and acquisitions, etc. In each chapter, a large number of cases are set up to help managers clarify their ideas and clear their obstacles.
