DealQuest has published 116 episodes on joint ventures, strategic alliances and partnerships. They feature 78 named guests and roughly 75 hours of conversation. The host is Corey Kupfer, a transactional attorney with more than 35 years of negotiating experience and the author of Authentic Negotiating. Partnerships that failed get as much attention as the ones that worked, which is where the structural lessons tend to sit. The median episode runs 43 minutes.
Counted across episode titles and show notes. Episodes appear under more than one heading where they cover more than one subject.
The six episodes that go deepest on transaction mechanics.
with Corey Kupfer
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with Steven Rothberg
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with Marion Wagner
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with Mike Reid
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with Strategic Planning
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DealQuest has published 116 episodes on joint ventures and alliances, out of 411 since February 2019. Guests include Corey Kupfer, Steven Rothberg, Marion Wagner. Recurring subjects are strategic alliances without equity (66 episodes); choosing and vetting a partner (38 episodes); structuring a joint venture (33 episodes); when partnerships break down (4 episodes).
Yes, deliberately. Guests are asked about deals that failed as well as deals that closed. Episode 213, "A Discussion on Business Partnerships," is one example.
Episodes treat a joint venture as a structure with shared equity or a shared entity, and a strategic alliance as a contractual arrangement without one. Both are covered.
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