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When business partnerships reach the point of mutual exhaustion

Our startup team has been through multiple pivots and investor rejections and we're all exhausted but nobody wants to be the one to say maybe this isn't working because we've invested so much of ourselves in it. The money is almost gone but more than that, our friendship is fraying and I don't know which I care about more - the company or the relationships.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Shared investment in a vision can create a collective inability to recognize when that vision is no longer serving anyone involved.

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