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When business partnerships test longtime friendships

Three of us started a small business together as friends and now we're discovering that our different relationships with risk and control are creating tension that's affecting both our friendship and our work. We avoid the hard conversations because we don't want to damage what we have, but the unspoken resentments are building up anyway.

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The intersection of friendship and shared responsibility reveals incompatible approaches to decision-making that threaten both relationships simultaneously.

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