I'm in an equal business partnership that will eventually have employees. What should my title be?
We've been calling ourselves "Principals," but we want something better. Ideas?
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One-Of-The-Guys-Who-Makes-The-Decisions?
More seriously...
Co-Director
Co-Executive Director
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But CEO is better in my mind.
Everyone knows what a CEO is.
Say that you're co CEO's or Business Partners when your introducing yourselves together.
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Right now something like "Principal Consultant" works fine, and "Partner" or "Director" would probably be ok but not as informative to anyone that gets your business card. It is probably to your advantage that people realise they're talking to someone who's a technologist and not just a manager.
Calling yourself "CEO" or any such invites derision, unless maybe your firm is actually using external resources to work on big projects.
In some cases "Co-Founder" or just "Founder" will work nicely, but I'd maybe save that until you have grown a little bit more. At that time if you like, you can have a double-barrelled title like "Founder and Principal Consultant".
Also if there is any difference in the roles you play in the business, you might want to reflect that in your titles. But I wouldn't go overboard in using big company terminology or trying to sound impressive until you're a little bit further down the track.
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Anyway to your question.
You should still be called Co- Founder or Principal because that's what you are.
If that's not what you want then just use your names because everybody knows who you are.
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Focus on having a business in 6 months rather than what your title will be in 6 months.
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Then if you and your business partner have more specific functional responsibilities within the company such as chief executive officer (CEO), chief financial officer (CFO), chief operating officer (COO), chief technical officer (CTO), chief marketing officer (CMO), chief information officer (CIO), chief creative officer (CCO) you can add that to your title.
For example : John Doe Co-founder/CEO
Hopefuly that works better for you.
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Principal and Co-Founder (all together)
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Listrophy P.P.E.
Feel free to arrange as you see fit. ex Principle Executive Partner
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M$Definitions-
Principal : chief, head or leader.
Partner: a person who is associated with another.
Executive: a person with administrative or managerial power in an organization.
Random House Websters Pockets American Dictionary
Random House Websters Pockets American Dictionary
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If you are a corporation, legally someone must have the position and title of President, and someone must have the position of Chairman of the Board. It may make sense for one of the equals to have the position of Chairman and the other person the President.
It does not matter what title you use within the company, what matters is how you represent yourself with customers and vendors. Depending upon the nature of your outside contacts a different title would be appropriate. Appropriate titles would include: owner, president, marketing manager, project manager. Print up several sets of business cards with different titles and depending upon who you are interacting with outside the company use the appropriate business card.
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