Nikolay
Cheremisin
I help:
• to launch from scratch or restart existing partnerships, turning them into a key business asset and a source of growth
• to ensure comfortable communication between partners, helping to get answers to difficult, uncomfortable questions
• to formulate a clear agreement defining duties, rules of cooperation, and the freedom of action of each partner
About
me
- Since 2001 Active in business
- $375 million Turnover over 12 years in joint businesses
- IRONMAN 140,6 Italy Emilia-Romagna 2019
- 10+ years In top management positions
- 2+2=4 4 businesses in partnership: 2 successful, 2 unsuccessful
- 220+ hours Of business flights per year, 33 countries
Who I work with
Investors:
- conduct an audit of partnership relations in a startup, project, or traditional business attracting investments
- conduct an initial partnership set up to safeguard investments in a joint business and sign a partnership agreement
Current business co-owners:
- synchronize with partners, get answers to difficult questions that cannot be discussed independently
- find and agree on business growth points in partnership
- re-negotiate and establish new partnership conditions
- prepare for independent negotiations with a partner
- prepare a proposal for a top manager successor to become a business partner
- negotiate exit scenarios from the partnership
Entrepreneurs with a partnership idea:
- create a partner profile and prepare a partnership proposal for a potential partner
- clarify expectations from the partnership and vision for the future at the start of the business
- distribute shares, roles, discuss and fix scenarios of work in a partnership agreement
Entrepreneurs entering a project partnership:
- dot all the i’s and cross all the t’s, ask difficult questions during the partnership setup, sign a partnership agreement
Top managers:
- Prepare for negotiations with the owner to enter a partnership
Investors:
- conduct an audit of partnership relations in a startup, project, or traditional business attracting investments
- conduct an initial partnership set up to safeguard investments in a joint business and sign a partnership agreement
Current business co-owners:
- synchronize with partners, get answers to difficult questions that cannot be discussed independently
- find and agree on business growth points in partnership
- re-negotiate and establish new partnership conditions
- prepare for independent negotiations with a partner
- prepare a proposal for a top manager successor to become a business partner
- negotiate exit scenarios from the partnership
Entrepreneurs with a partnership idea:
- create a partner profile and prepare a partnership proposal for a potential partner
- clarify expectations from the partnership and vision for the future at the start of the business
- distribute shares, roles, discuss and fix scenarios of work in a partnership agreement
Entrepreneurs entering a project partnership:
- dot all the i’s and cross all the t’s, ask difficult questions during the partnership setup, sign a partnership agreement
Top managers:
- Prepare for negotiations with the owner to enter a partnership
What kind of requests do I receive?
Why to manage partnership relations is important
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53%of entrepreneurs create business partnerships with friends and family members - Small Business Report Bank of America
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65%of business projects fail before they even start due to partners' inability to resolve disagreements - Noam T. Wasserman Harvard Business School
Blog
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07.08.24
Scenario Planning in Partnerships
16.07.24
From Idea to Sustainable Partnership
10.07.24
Disagreements with a Partner – synchronisation of world’s maps
30.06.24
Cortisol and Partnership
25.06.24
Partner A or partner B?
25.06.24
Difference of goals in partnerships
25.06.24
Smoothing Over or Changing Partnership Agreements Through Crisis
25.06.24
Managing Disappointment in Partnership
24.06.24
Trust: The Foundation of Economic Success
My Clients
Stories
I do not discuss information received during individual meetings with other partners or third parties.
Partnership agreements are the main asset of business partners, and I only work with them after signing an NDA. I prefer not to advertise my awareness of these issues when discussing delicate, sensitive aspects of business and forming agreements.
Partnership agreements, like money, love silence
Frequently Asked Questions
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Why do you need a partnership setup?
- A partnership setup creates a manageable, modellable conflict regarding partners’ positions in future scenarios. The goal of the partnership setup is to avoid a real conflict in the event of such scenarios.
- A partnership setup is an injection that stimulates the partnership’s immune system and provides the development of antibodies against possible conflicts that partners inevitably face while conducting joint business.
What is the result of a partnership setup?
- The result of a partnership setup is a partnership agreement in which all points and scenarios agreed upon by the parties are clearly and unambiguously reflected, along with its validity period.
- A partnership agreement is the partnership’s immunological passport, reflecting the partners’ readiness to painlessly overcome contentious and conflict situations.
- What issues can partners have disagreements on?
- How to assess the resources each partner brings to the common cause?
- What will partners consider a failure in the joint business, and what will they do in the event of their occurrence?
- Can relatives or friends be hired or involved?
- How to assess errors and their consequences in the partners’ area of responsibility?
- How can the business be divided if one of the partners leaves the project?
The list of questions is much wider.
Does a partnership setup guarantee business success?
- A partnership setup does not guarantee success, but it gives you new tools in business. The more tools you have, the more chances you have to succeed.
Is it too late to set up a partnership with existing partners?
- Partnership relations are not linear; past successes do not guarantee future successes. Business is a dynamic system; something is constantly changing – a new team, expansion, crises, external events, and accumulated dissatisfaction. A partnership setup is necessary to review and adapt outdated agreements in accordance with changed circumstances.
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