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Avino
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| Business Investment - Splitting the profits |
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Hi all,
I am investing in a business with another partner. The question I have isn't
about the business in of it itself (we have been planning and doing research
for almost two years now and are ready to move ahead with the capital
investment).
We are to the point in our planning were we need to discuss how the money is going to be split once a profit is made. So here is the situation and I need some advice (and forgetting the business and going into the stock market is not an option).
There are three of us. Two of us are going in 50% and 50% with the capital
needed. The third will be doing all of the work at least during the beggining. Since the third person will be strictly dedicated to doing the work we will be paying him a salary each month to compensate for his efforts.
Lets assume the business is successful and it now comes time to split profits. One scenario is that we meet our lowest expectation and the other
our highest. The business is in the Dominican Republic so for figures below
I converted the numbers to dollars and assumed the turn around time to a
profit was 6 months. The salary is a constant $3,450 over the six months in both scenarios.
The initial investment is $25,000, so $12.5K each with the capital.
scenario 1 Lowest profit met
Profit : 9,572 - If we split this evenly amongst the three of us, then the one that didn't put in any capital but put in all the work makes out with 6,608 and the other two make out with only $3,158
scenario 2 highest profit met
Profit : 68,715 - if we split this evenly, to be honest I wouldn't even care much about the 3,450 more the other person gets above us because its a very good profit margin.
Of course if the business fails we loose our capital and the third person has at least gotten a monthly salary out of the deal while the business was started.
So my question, what is a fair formula to split ownership / profit sharing of the business if its successful? After writing this down I think some kind of gradual formula may work best. Any ideas?
~A.
Also blogging @ avinos2cents.blogspot.com
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Fri Sep 18, 2009 8:41 pm |
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Avino
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Cash: $ 24.80
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Hi Coaster,
Great to hear from you. I will be taking up flying again in a few weeks to finish my license. I had to put it on hold for a while to get other things off the ground (pun intended lol).
Thanks for the reply, it is pretty much my feelings with the subject. I think we are going to go with a gradual scale of profits to equity. The more profits we make, the more equity he will earn in the business and the initial salary is somewhat low so there is much incentive for the business to do well.
And your right, if it fails, we take all the losses, and he still gets a salary. I am glad to say I finally got debt free 100% just a few weeks ago and it feels great. Now I can focus on business and investments.
~A.
Also blogging @ avinos2cents.blogspot.com
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