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How to handle when your partner's death threatens your company's future

My business partner of fifteen years died suddenly and his widow wants to sell his shares to someone I have never met and I cannot afford to buy her out.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Death has disrupted the assumed continuity of partnership, forcing a reckoning with how much of the business's identity was tied to relationships that can end.

Ideas that help explain it
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“Where Are You with Business legacy — the company that outlasts the founder?”

If this sounds familiar, the Library can help you find the bigger picture.