If you don’t communicate well as a couple and have deep mutual respect, it will only be magnified when you are running a company together.

“ If one of you micromanages at home, you will at the office and that’s deadly. Know what you respect about each other and be honest about who is better at doing what. Be sure your relationship is already strong, mutually supportive, and that you have open and honest communication skills already. Marriages are hard enough without the tremendous, additional stress of starting and growing a company together. Be sure you have thoroughly assessed the real state of your relationship before starting a business together.Many of them were confirmed by our clients that provided input. Here are some of my observations over the years. There are typical and atypical benefits and challenges that we don’t see in non-married co-founders. As we coach our entrepreneurs through the ups and downs of growing a business, we need to be sure we are aware of where they might need critical support. I decided to ask some experts….including some of our married co-founders….for insights and tips on running a business with your spouse. But what else do we need to be mindful of when working with client companies run by life partners? When there is more than one co-founder, that is certainly true. I have often said that we are often like “marriage counselors” in our roles as entrepreneur coaches. How do you find balance in your multi-faceted relationship? How do you keep from wrecking the marriage? I thought about how stressful it is, in general, to start and grow a successful business and how much more so it is when your business partner is your life partner. We have always had a few, but there are more and more startups in our Incubation Program with both partners all in and engaged full-time in the business. Recently, I realized how many clients we have that are run by husband and wife co-founders.

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