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06-11-2014, 05:50 PM
How to Start a Business With a Friend — and Actually Remain Friends
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When you launch a company with a friend — if you're a woman, at least — people tend to think one of two things: That it's either an endless slumber-party ("That sounds like so much fun!") or that you are completely insane and are destined to have a falling out that would be worthy of a Bravo reality show.
See also: 10 Creative Solutions for a More Productive Workspace (http://mashable.com/2012/09/30/workspace-solutions/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss)
But four years into starting Of a Kind (http://www.ofakind.com), a site that sells the pieces and tells the stories of emerging designers, my business partner Claire Mazur (https://www.linkedin.com/in/clairemazur) and I have had neither experience. In fact, we think that our partnership is one of the strongest, most impressive things about the business we've built. Below, eight of the tips and tricks we've picked up along the way. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2014/06/11/starting-a-business-with-friend/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss)
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When you launch a company with a friend — if you're a woman, at least — people tend to think one of two things: That it's either an endless slumber-party ("That sounds like so much fun!") or that you are completely insane and are destined to have a falling out that would be worthy of a Bravo reality show.
See also: 10 Creative Solutions for a More Productive Workspace (http://mashable.com/2012/09/30/workspace-solutions/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss)
But four years into starting Of a Kind (http://www.ofakind.com), a site that sells the pieces and tells the stories of emerging designers, my business partner Claire Mazur (https://www.linkedin.com/in/clairemazur) and I have had neither experience. In fact, we think that our partnership is one of the strongest, most impressive things about the business we've built. Below, eight of the tips and tricks we've picked up along the way. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2014/06/11/starting-a-business-with-friend/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss)
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