Consulting detective.

So he works for a consulting firm.

The book became a best seller.

One way we say that is shared economics.

So, in a way, the different structure is that we're partners, it's a partnership.

No, but I'm not the world's only consulting detective.

16.Partnerships and collaborations

A few weeks after florida,they hooked me up with a job at the consulting firm.

What are you going to do, and what are they going to do?

So this sounds great. Partner sound wonderful but what could go wrong with this?

Alvin, our software engineer and co founder, has built these tools.

Because without the I .. it would just be... mage consulting.

And all the books and literature that talks about partnerships very rarely addresses startup to large company partnerships.

It's all about you and me.

Let me start with the large company partnership risks.

In one of your emails to Mr Narendra, you referenced Howard Winklevoss' consulting firm.

And our partners are Zuma Canyon Orchids of Malibu, California, who are Hispanic.

I feel like I've got a purpose in this life, and I don't know what it is, but I'm pretty certain that management consultancy is not it.

You just need to ask what are core services that are part of your value proposition.

Some of you are familiar with this.

At Dunson, Yard and Keppler Public Relations we think it's important to keep the I in Image Consulting.

The Community Energy Partnership Program (CEPP) offers a 90 grant on eligible activities that have the technical, financial and governing feasability of a community project.

As I said earlier, one of the biggest mistakes startup make is confusing strategic alliances and joint partnerships for what you need on day 1.

Arthur, you're not going toind another firm that's done more highlevel consulting work for a relatively small pharmaceutical company like yours.

When do I need joint partnerships and when will I be hitting mainstream customers because remember most these partnerships tend to fail.

As opposed to the first office that I showed you in the beginning of the talk, this is a well known office, which is the Weidt Group.

The middle part, the blue part, relates to my working in advertising and consulting, but then that green part and all these satellites around relates to my involvement in the NGO sector.

There has been a lot of competition in the past, and we need to develop a new model of partnership, truly collaborative, where we are looking for complementing, not substituting.

I have come incognito from Prague for the purpose of consulting you.

It has an API that enables any partner to access to search, read and write information.

Half of that is coming from dismantled warheads from Russia, soon to be joined by our dismantled warheads.

Again these are further out hypotheses but we're thinking about customer royalty programs, seniority credits, partnership rewards, free jersey giveaways.

We've also made partnerships with artists, with people who understand and can communicate the aesthetic beauty of trees and forest canopies.

Acumen came in with the patient capital, and we also helped to identify the entrepreneur that we would all partner with here in Africa, and Exxon provided the initial resin.

I started my career with trying to understand the mysteries of forests with the tools of science.

When we come to understand nature, we are touching the most deep, the most important parts of our self.

So, I just used this as an example not to bash Boeing, but to understand that even the smartest companies sometimes made partnership decisions that look good on a spreadsheet, but at the end of the day, partnerships are not driven by spreadsheets.

The impact of this has been that these hospitals, in the second year after our consultation, are double their output and then achieve financial recovery as well.

We can continue to work and dedicate ourselves to this project, and then we also share in the rewards.

For start ups, trying to understand what it is you want to focus on versus what is it you require in terms of activities and resources and suppliers is a real strategy.

And all you put together, in partnership, brings about the best music.

So I want to tell you a little bit about what this partnership, the Polio Partnership, is trying to do.

Sometimes it might start with coopetition and turn into a strategic alliance and someday might actually be a joint venture, but the whole idea is that you're working together with others to help build your company.

Both delighted with the quick success of this new partnership which has brought Yamura his first Grand Prix victory after two years of flying.

And we got to talking, and it turned out to be a great partnership because he'd never coached a disabled athlete, so therefore he had no preconceived notions of what I was or wasn't capable of, and I'd never been coached before.