What is an Active Partner? A partner involved in day-to-day operations that keep a business running. This person shares the same risk of profit or loss as their partner company. A partner is simply a ...

Some entrepreneurs dream of a partner who puts money into the company and gets out of the way. Other small business owners need product or business management expertise along with financial resources.

There are a lot of labels for this common dynamic — active vs. passive, over-responsible vs. under-responsible, martyr vs. victim — but the pattern is one where one person is always initiating — ...