May 2026
Discover how to evaluate small businesses for investment opportunities. Learn the key factors to assess, including financial stability, owner experience, market demand, growth potential, and investor compatibility before making a smart investment decision.
Find Small Businesses Worth Investing In
Learn why small businesses grow faster with the right partner. Discover how strategic partnerships improve expertise, decision-making, capacity, risk-sharing, and business opportunities while helping entrepreneurs scale more efficiently and sustainably.
Small Business Needs a Partner to Grow Faster
Should you hire employees or choose equity partnerships for business growth? Explore the differences in cost, expertise, incentive alignment, ownership mindset, and shared risk to determine the smarter long-term strategy for scaling your business.
Which Is the Smarter Choice for Growth?
April 2026
Choosing the right business partner is a critical step toward long-term success. Strong partnerships are built on trust, shared goals, communication and complementary skills that help businesses grow with confidence.
Find the Right Business Partner for Long-Term Success
May 2025
The business cycle is by its very nature – well, cyclical. Downturns are inevitable, like the rising and setting of the sun. As a small business, strategies for coping with the dark nights vary. Here are six that sit firmly within your control, rather than leaving you at the mercy of others.
6 strategies for surviving the dark nights of small business
March 2025
Business founder Winston Riley came to PrtnerUp hoping to open doors for one of his start-ups. Instead, he found that it opened a world of unexpected opportunities both for his business and a separate non-profit start-up. This is how.
"PrtnerUp is becoming a real success saga for us."
January 2025
Benjamin Franklin once said, “keep your eyes wide open before marriage.” He might just as well have been talking about a business partnership as a romantic one. To avoid becoming part of the (really quite sobering) business failure statistics, it’s crucial to find the perfect match. What does it take?
5 tips for finding the right business partner
October 2024
Starting a business is never going to be easy, but starting one with others will reduce the strain - and not just in a financial sense. Find out how co-founders and partners help to reduce the inevitable pressure of the journey from idea to successful business.
Business bootstrapping with co-founders and partners
September 2024
Business owners all know the need to run fast just to stand still. Indeed, surveys show simple survival is top of mind for more than two thirds of them. Yet the secret to winning the race may not be how fast they can run, but who they can find to help carry the load.
Success for entrepreneurs may come down to finding the right business partner
August 2024
A lot of people know what it's like to be disengaged from their job. A whole lot. Up to one third of all employees in the United States, in fact! But for employees who have the experience and skills to count as experts in their field, a left-field alternative could open a whole new world.
The next career step for subject matter experts may be business partner