Starting a company changes your household's money, time and stress. A good conversation before you start beats ten tense ones later. Use these questions with your partner and write down the answers together.
Questions to agree on#
- Runway: how many months of savings will we use, and which money is off limits?
- Stop-loss: on what date, or at what number, do we stop or change course?
- Time: which evenings and weekends stay family time?
- Roles: who covers what at home while the company is young?
- Check-ins: when do we review how it's going? Once a month is a good start.
Make it a plan, not a promise#
Write the answers on one page, sign it, and revisit it each month. Change it together when things change.