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For me I spent years with this person doing community work. Door to door type grassroots stuff. He started a promising venture and I joined. One year in and it
by jktjkt 3y ago
For me I spent years with this person doing community work. Door to door type grassroots stuff. He started a promising venture and I joined. One year in and it’s fantastic. We’re on the same page, we talk often, and there’s 100% trust.
I’ve even recruited other mutual friends to join and it’s been great.
The truth is, not all your friends will have great ideas, as much as you love and care for them. And the other truth is that when everything is going well, it’s easy to have good working relation ships.
It’s when people are struggling for their next checks do things become strained - doubly so when they’re your friend.
Choose your ventures carefully, whether they’re your friend or not.
- jktjkt 3y agoOther rule of thumb I picked up - don’t do special deals. You have to treat them like you would any company you don’t entirely know, and if you’re managing your friends expect them to do the same - or encourage them to if they don’t. At the end of the day, the founder gives way to a board they need to answer to.