Take The Job?
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- monNom0
Nope. Do you own thing if there's no opportunity to try it out to see how it fits.
Being an 'equal partner' means you're also equally on the hook for all the liabilities that might have been run up previously due to high overhead. How much did it cost to buy the other guy out? and is that debt still on the books?
How good is he at sales? branding? You don't want to be attached to a shitty salesman. He's going to be a parasitic drag on your organization because sales != billable hours. And if he's not booking work at more than double what you can charge freelance, you're going to lose money.From his perspective, why would he want to partner with someone he hardly even knows? Partnership entails a very difficult to break legal structure. Anyone who would jump into bed with a new partner sight unseen is impulsive and not managing business risk. That probably goes for the rest of the business affairs.
And lastly, you said you wanted to leave the city within a year. Better to work for him as an outside contractor and let him find a partner who is in it for the long term.