This document describes an academic-practitioner collaboration between ReadyFounder Services and North Carolina State University to develop a new measure of entrepreneurial personality. The collaboration brought together the practitioner's goal of creating a useful tool for business with the academic's need to follow rigorous research procedures. Challenges included compressing timelines and ambiguity around roles. Lessons included clarifying expectations upfront, keeping communication open, and maintaining flexibility. Going forward, both parties are interested in how to commercialize and advance scientific knowledge from the project.