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Sometimes, businesses find it in their best interest to make new partnerships and there are many obvious reasons for this as well. Some of these reasons and advantages of business partnerships are given in the paragraphs to follow.

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1. Capital

Considering nature of a business, startup capital is used by the partners for funding their business. It means that increasing partners to any particular business will mean increased amount of capital coming into that particular business, allowing for better flexibility as well as more growth potential. As a result, there will be more potential gains that the partners will share equally.

2. Flexibility

It is generally easier to make, manage and even run a partnership. The regulations are less strict as compared to companies in case of partnerships when it comes to laws that govern their formation. Also as partners have only say as to how the business should be run and there is no interference from shareholders, it is a lot more flexible to manage partnerships, provided the partners have a habit of agreeing.

3. Shared responsibility

The responsibility to run the business is shared between partners. It allows them to make best use of the abilities they have. Instead of splitting management and sharing all business tasks equally, the work might well be split as per their skills. Therefore, if one of the partners works well with figures, their share in responsibility should be towards accounts and book keeping, while other may have a passion for sales so they can take care of that aspect of the business.

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4. Decision making

The business decision making is also shared among partners and they can be helpful for one another whenever the need arises. Having more partners will mean there are more brains that can contribute to business ideas as well as in solving problems encountered by the business.

5. Diversified approaches

There are only few individuals who have all necessary skills as well as knowledge required for running a business in a successful manner. Bringing in somebody new would mean one added skill set and more experience and knowledge. When more experience, knowledge and skills are accessible, partnerships have broader skill base and vast experience to work with. For instance, a co-founder can belong to financial background while the other may have expertise on the technical side and both these aspects of the business can be well taken care of.

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