# Have you ever found a business partner on the SDMB? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [June 2, 2011, 4:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-found-a-business-partner-on-the-sdmb/584095 "2011-06-02T16:17:34Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Elret](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/b9bd4f/32.png) [@Elret](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elret)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2011, 4:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-found-a-business-partner-on-the-sdmb/584095/1 "2011-06-02T16:17:34Z")
I know lots of friendships and marriages have sprouted here. How about business deals? Seems like there is such a great mix of skills here, there must be a successful business just waiting to happen if a couple of people joined forces. Have you ever done it? ---
**Author:** ![Oakminster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/77aa72/32.png) [@Oakminster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oakminster)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2011, 4:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-found-a-business-partner-on-the-sdmb/584095/2 "2011-06-02T16:21:16Z")
Nope, and not really practical for me. I’m pretty sure I’m the only lawyer here with a license to practice in my state, and I’m not really interested in trying to get admitted elsewhere. ---
**Author:** ![picker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/picker/32/13969_2.png) [@picker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/picker)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2011, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-found-a-business-partner-on-the-sdmb/584095/3 "2011-06-02T16:47:15Z")
Well, I’m a music producer and mix engineer by trade, and I’m about to do a mix for a fellow doper next week. But I wouldn’t call it business, as there’s no money involved and I volunteered to do it. But it is a mix, and that is what I do for a living…so, kinda fits. ---
**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2011, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-found-a-business-partner-on-the-sdmb/584095/4 "2011-06-02T16:57:13Z")
I have my own successful business building Web applications, and **Athena** is a successful freelancer doing the same thing (along with Mr. Athena), and we partner up from time to time. Right now they’re doing 2 projects for us. We’ve never met IRL, even. ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2011, 4:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-found-a-business-partner-on-the-sdmb/584095/5 "2011-06-02T16:59:18Z")
Not “partners”, but I have patronized a couple of Doper-owned businesses because I like the posters who own them. ---
**Author:** ![Jonathan\_Chance](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jonathan_chance/32/701_2.png) [@Jonathan\_Chance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jonathan_Chance)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2011, 1:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-found-a-business-partner-on-the-sdmb/584095/6 "2011-06-03T13:48:44Z")
I’ve hired at least one doper for some contract software work. It worked out well. ---
**Author:** ![iftheresaway](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/ecae2f/32.png) [@iftheresaway](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iftheresaway)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2011, 4:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-found-a-business-partner-on-the-sdmb/584095/7 "2011-06-03T16:33:07Z")
Not yet, but I’d love to start. 😃 I’m a freelance copywriter, and I imagine that Dopers as clients would be a good set of folks to work with, on average (especially since I focus on informative-persuasive copy and not hypey health or financial stuff).