Saturday, September 26, 2015

Basics On Joint Venture Project Funding

By Della Monroe


Starting up a business or project individually can be costly and that is why people come together and form a relationship where they give equal financial contribution towards the support of project or business. This agreement is called a joint venture whereas the financial supply is known as venture funding. In such cases therefore, joint venture project funding requires the partners to invest their time, money and effort in order to ensure the success of the business.

The main reasons that may stimulate individuals minds to adopt this system are need for growth of a business, when getting markets for new products. The system will support this because it ensures availability of adequate resources, increased capacity, wide range of skills, and promises a good market network and ways of properly distributing your products since it has a good number of individuals who will market the products.

Partners who decide to fund projects in a joint business should communicate clearly on what they want, have similar objectives for the project venture, agree on the desired management styles, set realistic expectations which would allow for success to be met and ensure there is adequate support for the business development in the early stages. Trust and teamwork are a must have attributes which ensures conducive working relationship between the partners.

Most a times this system is referred as for only small business, which is not the case here, because established companies also accommodates this idea with the sense of growing and this has promised to work despite the size of the company. This therefore shows that for a business to prosper there is need to team-up with one spirit given that the start-up capital for a new business is relatively high. This idea provides for sharing of both profits and losses with the parties equally.

When dealing with any business jointly, the partners should give more focus on the future of their partnership and not just the expected returns. This calls for strategic plans to be put in place keeping in mind that funding the business involves monetary support.

Setting up a business depends on what you are trying to achieve. For example when starting up, a small business with a fine new product might sell through a larger company and the two partners could agree to a contract setting out the terms and conditions of how this would work. In some circumstance other options may work better, for instance you may decide to merge up your different business to become one entity.

Every joint venture formed should have set rules and regulations, which must be in written agreement. The agreement should cover a number of issues and this includes the objectives which should be met, the financial contributions to be made by each partner, the structure of business entity, how the venture will be managed and the overall leadership. It should cover the ways of sharing profits and how to address issues in case of losses, whether or not to merge the businesses of the partners or have the business on its own, how to resolve conflicts which may arise and lastly in case the partners decide to exit, the strategies they would use.

With time, your business, your business partners and the market may change and this may cause the joint business to come to an end. It can also end if the particular venture that was being handled is finished. Therefore the written agreement should cover how the partners will share properties and the liabilities and who will receive any profit that may be earned from the future activities of the venture.




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