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Can Friends Be Successful Business Partners? – A Success Story
Can Friends Be Successful Business Partners? – A Success Story
March 2009 - Jason Dornhoffer and Terry Murtaugh were long-time friends when they considered starting a business together. It could have been a disaster ending up in loss of friendship as well as an unsuccessful start-up, but instead, united worldwide is a successful business venture providing clients with private car service in 195 countries. Their travel professionals manage and oversee all the details of clients’ itineraries whether in America, Europe or Asia.
What made this particular venture a success? Jason and Terry had a good business plan; Terry had experience in the private car service industry and Jason in Sales; and together, they came to SCORE for advice in their start-up days.
After a couple of initial meetings at the Boston SCORE office, their SCORE counselor, Seymour Salett, met them at their office to continue their sessions; many SCORE counselors make an attempt to meet their current clients at their businesses site so the clients can be “at work” and get advice concurrently.
Seymour initially helped Jason and Terry determine the best way to find their initial start-up money. Seymour was also very insistent that Jason and Terry draft a strong partnership agreement to protect them so that both their nascent business and their long-time friendship could survive and continue to thrive. He continued to counsel them with business development ideas as they moved out of the planning stages and into the working stages. united worldwide has now grown to be one of the most respected private car services in the industry with a team of full time industry professionals .
In September 2008 united worldwide was presented an award by SCORE for Business of the Year recognizing the company’s professionalism, integrity and commitment to longevity.
Follow this link to their website to read more about their business www.unitedprivatecar.com , and bring your business idea to SCORE for free business counseling.