Launching a business with a close friend can seem like an ideal arrangement. Partners trust each other, enjoy working together and appear to share similar goals. But reality often differs once money, ...

B.D. Dalton II the Lazy Overachiever, writer and dealmaker brings 25 years of success and failure. Director at Rockfine Group. Jim Rohn is often credited with saying, “You are the average of the five ...

Starting a business with a friend? Here, a pair of successful co-founders share their five key tips to creating a thriving career, together. Photo: That’s So Retrograde; Graphics: Well+Good ...

On a recent episode of his popular podcast "A Bit of Optimism," host Simon Sinek asks restaurateur Will Guidara the question "Should you do business with your friends or should you not mix the two?" ...

We all know the possible pitfalls of doing business with friends. Unfortunately, we mostly hear the sad stories of how friendships, some of them lifelong, got lost because a business deal went sour or ...

One of our clients, Margaret, a commercial litigation lawyer, had always been hesitant about approaching her social contacts for business. She had a close friend, David, who was the CFO of a mid-sized ...