What choice would you make?

[alarm man]

That is very true unless he's all talk and no walk

It's crazy how many people I know in various trades but 99% of my work comes through my own effort, advertising, word of mouth.

I personally would never enter a partnership, I wanted to work for myself for exactly that reason. Too many stories about describing how one partner took all the debt and the other cleared off with the EX, Y and Zed :thumbsup

If you have the desire go it alone.

tis true,tho depends on the partner,if i was ever to start out i know a few id what along for their contacts and ability,some start alone some start a company

 

[morph]

maybe you should get 40 % and your mate 60% , any one can do or learn to house bash, without your mates work contracts you have nothing

 

[RISElectrical]

Every company needs numerous elements to succeed. You say you will be doing most of the technical side of things, which is fine but dont forget that "sales" in itself can be a hard task. Someone above said that getting contracts is the easy bit, for filling them is the hard bit. This I think is wrong. completing the contracts is what you are trained to do, you have the technical skill and knowledge to do it. Sometimes its getting the work, opportunity to quote which is hard.

Maybe you could have a word with the guy and get him involved in the invoicing/purchasing side of things and then if he looks after the winning of the work and you run the jobs etc I don't see why this isnt a 50/50 split.

1 thing I would say is that, if you are already questioning the 50/50 thing and feeling hard done to then this is only going to get worse. So maybe best think about it.