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When friends become business partners and discover incompatibilities

Three of us started a small business together as friends and now we're two years in and realizing we have completely different risk tolerances and communication styles. We avoid the hard conversations because we don't want to hurt the friendship, but the business decisions are getting harder and we're all getting frustrated.

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A group bonded by affection is discovering that shared enterprise requires different skills and agreements than friendship provides.

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