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Scenario

When friendships and professional partnerships clash

My co-founder and I started this company as friends and we still act like friends in meetings, joking around and being casual about deadlines and commitments, but we're at the stage where we need to be more professional and I don't know how to suggest that without it feeling like I'm rejecting our friendship. Our investors have started making comments.

More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The relationship that enabled the partnership's creation now constrains its evolution.

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