Daniel has posted this great question his blog – Does having a business partner improve your chances of success? He has posted examples of various online business that have done well and have been pretty successful and were founded by two more people. Of course, there are lot of benefits of having a partner and Daniel has posted various arguments that are given by those who are in favor of having a partner -
1. Two minds think better than one.
2. The partners can have complementary skills (i.e., one can be a good programmer, and the other one a good marketer)
3. The partners can cover for each other in the face of emergencies or periods where one of them will not be able to work for some reason.
4. When the company has no employees, two people will be able to do more work than one person alone.
The question arises that why am I writing all this over here? This blog is all about blogging tips and not about business. Well, this blog is actually about blog and business both and we can call it a blog that provides tips on building blog business. I’ve even written various blog posts on business blogging too.
There have been many startups that have done extremely well in both the cases (while having partners and while doing it alone) however, I’ve always been a supporter of having a partner in the business and the above mentioned reasons are just the tip of all the benefits that a partner brings in to the business. Rajat & I co-founded Blog Design Studio and I know for sure that without his experience and client interaction skills, it wouldn’t have been possible for me to think about running this business all alone.
I won’t say that this blog business of ours is a success story, however I’m confident that soon there’ll be the day when you’ll see it as one of the success stories in the blogosphere.
There have been some great examples of partnerships around blogosphere and here are some of them that you should certainly look at -
1. Brian Clark & Chris Pearson’s Thesis Theme.
2. Darren Rowse & Chirs Garrett’s Book on Problogging.
3. Smashing Magazine, Boing Boing are some of the greatest blogs on the internet and all have multiple authors.
4. Can we forget Twitter in this case? (I know its a micro-blogging service; none the less, it’s still part of blogging)
5. and many more….
Is there anyway you think you’d be able to build partnerships with others? What skills would you like to have in your partner to ensure that your business can take off and be a success? or are you one of those who think that it’s better to run the business alone than run it in partnership?
