make sure you know enough about the business end to be able to review the books
that is the plan.
does anyone else have any advice on what type of business we should be? LLC or other?
make sure you know enough about the business end to be able to review the books
I've seen several architectural firms setup that way. It can work and it can implode. The danger can be that he gets the perception that he's the rainmaker and that he can go out and hire a good designer. The designer can get the perception that he's the brilliance behind the firm and can go out and hire a business person. If either of those perceptions start to take hold, you have trouble. Being in business is about like being married. You spend that much time with one another. To use a biblical reference, just make sure that you're not unequally yoked.he has the clients/contacts but the all want to meet me (his "primary designer"). I have a meeting next month with two of them, but I have to go to Myrtle Beach to do it. I will take my vacation then. He is better at the business end than I am and I am the better designer (his words). He enjoys the business end and dealing with people whereas I enjoy designing and not really dealing with the client until I have to do so.
im not sure on that one. it seems like most architecture folks i know are in partnerships, but thats a pretty limited pool and i don't know if that's the norm.that is the plan.
does anyone else have any advice on what type of business we should be? LLC or other?
Nope. he only has brothers.Does your potential partner have a hawt sister?
i will keep you in mind.I've seen several architectural firms setup that way. It can work and it can implode. The danger can be that he gets the perception that he's the rainmaker and that he can go out and hire a good designer. The designer can get the perception that he's the brilliance behind the firm and can go out and hire a business person. If either of those perceptions start to take hold, you have trouble. Being in business is about like being married. You spend that much time with one another. To use a biblical reference, just make sure that you're not unequally yoked.
It does seem like the industry is bouncing back. The Architects Billing Index has decreased the last 2 months in a row though and is now in the declining market category. The whole industry seems to be holding it's breath for November.
Oh, and I have a SC PE license
If'n I was you, I'd move to Florence, Italy and grow grapes.looks as though by the end of this year i will be moving to Florence South Carolina to start an architecture irm with a friend of mine. i will know more after the election and Christmas. very nervous about starting this, it is very scary, but i think it is just time to get off my butt and do what i really have always wanted to do anyway. the reason i am having to wait is my future business partner is wanting to wait until after the election. he is trying to line up work and get a masters degree at the same time.
you might be rightIf'n I was you, I'd move to Florence, Italy and grow grapes.
I know you think you are being funny but you are just insulting now. You are now suggesting I will fail? Stop posting on any comments about me or my job.The good news is that once you start your own business and fail you can then move on to being a architecture professor for the next stage of Mosbyism.
I know you think you are being funny but you are just insulting now. You are now suggesting I will fail? Stop posting on any comments about me or my job.
RV, obviously, you ain't seen any of my adult entertainment showin's.This is not my fight King but this is what we do here. We pick on each other. You have even started picking back the last couple of days. Then when people pick on you, you cant take it and whine about it. And for the record I have never seen anyone as much like a TV character as you. Later Mosby.
Good luck. My advice for starting a business is to not be such a big baby about everything.Lock this thread please. Some people on here don’t seem to grasp that you could just tell me “good luck” or offer advice on starting my business instead they choose to make this dumb repeated tired joke. Please lock the thread.
Nope. he only has brothers.
'Pose to ask him if'n they like oreos, riz. Don't you know nuthin'?Are they hawt?
I had me an oreo sammich just last nite.'Pose to ask him if'n they like oreos, riz. Don't you know nuthin'?
Not yet. I'm still going through orientation.'Pose to ask him if'n they like oreos, riz. Don't you know nuthin'?
Double stuff an all? :biggrin2:I had me an oreo sammich just last nite.