The barebones:<div><br></div><div><b>1. Common vision :</b> Do you share the same vision, or are you at least able to bridge that delta in the individual visions?<br><div><b>2. Value proposition :</b> What do they bring to the table? Capital? Hard Skills? People Skills? Business Connections?</div>
</div><div><b>3. Mutual Trust :</b> When the situation calls, is either of you comfortable with letting the other chap run entity entirely on their own for a while?</div><div><br></div><div>A while back, Idd Salim blogged some thoughts in relation to this, albeit from the Techie&#39;s standpoint:  <a href="http://bit.ly/12y8GQT">http://bit.ly/12y8GQT</a></div>
<div><br></div><div>Tony.</div>