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When friendship complicates business partnerships in crisis

Our startup team has been friends since college and now that the company is struggling we can't separate business decisions from personal loyalty. We need to have hard conversations about equity and roles and maybe letting people go, but we're all so afraid of hurting each other that we're letting the whole thing slowly die instead.

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