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When business partnerships strain lifelong friendships

My best friend and I started a business together three years ago and lately we disagree on everything — how to spend money, who to hire, even what our mission is — and we're both too scared to have the real conversation because we know it might mean choosing between our friendship and our company.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Two people are discovering that shared dreams can evolve in different directions, and avoiding the truth to preserve the relationship is actually threatening both the partnership and the friendship.

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