Collaborating for work or business (enquiry type)

The parties have equal status and power, but may have different qualities, attributes, skills or competences. People are looking for others with similar ambitions, and typically complementary abilities, to act as a team. Alternatively, people's skills may be similar, and the people could be coming together to share common services, or to present a shared public face.

This enquiry type is fine for finding more equal partners in a business or organisation, but if it's employees that are wanted, with a commitment different from the existing partners, then the employment enquiry type would be preferred.

The assumption is that the people are coming together to create or develop a partnership or self-sustaining entity that provides or contributes towards making a living. There is no assumption about where or how the different people live.

• Features: work, with learning; money or benefits; high commitment
• Parties mainly relate symmetrically: partner, member; though there may also be limited asymmetry between existing partners or members and new ones.
• Required questions: jurisdiction; legal framework

Example motivations for using this type; people who: :

• want to find people to explore starting a business or venture with
• want to join partners of equal status in an existing business
• want to found a craft, trade or professional organisation of people with similar standards and values

• Skills
• Experience
• Resources

And less likely:

• Age range
• Life stage
• Gender

• Business model
• Business sector
• Scale / size / reach of business
• Legal structure
• Location / jurisdiction