[Mated friendship to commerce]

"Never do business with friends and family", the advise you'll receive from a veteran at failed attempts in business. 'The truth about any story of success is the true lies in it' [1]. If you can understand that, you're halfway to making it in your own story of success.

Trouble with advise is that mostly it's double edged. Sometimes one advises you so as to steer you away from their territory and at times be to enable you to advance. This taking me back to the issue of a mentor vs a seasoned business consultant. The core of the argument being the relationship building over time and the unlocking of opportunities in the long run. I know of people who got locked out of opportunities because their mentors felt jealous or have set a buffer for them. That is caused by the competition built over time with them resulting from the friendship made that later turns to frenemy.

That not scraping the goodness of the phenomenon, no, just the downsides I had observed personally. Enough of that, back to the topic. Doing business with friends and family isn't entirely a bad thing to be honest, what harms the thought is the downside only sans exploration of the upside. If your friends and family are the material then where's the danger in it? How many of us failed because of going into business with total strangers?

I believe if the common interest exists in each, you sure are on your way there. Of late I'm thankful for having turned around from the thoughts of those advises given then. The best advise I feel for me still the most relevant to date was to listen to my own intuition for it won't lead me astray, and that there's a reason to its every reaction. I for one, at most like to tell those I engage with that they should never listen to the story of another's success, that they just hear it and move on in stay on their course. Truth is, the content is similar, so, dig deep in creation of your own to share in future.

In conclusion: there's nothing wrong in mating friendship to commerce. What matters the most is the collective intent and sheer respect, love and well wishing among each other. Not every friend or family member will make a business partner, it takes a special kind to make the cut, so be genuine about that to preserve your good relations.

[1] by KgeleLeso