{"id":11676,"date":"2016-08-02T17:51:52","date_gmt":"2016-08-02T22:51:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hostgator.com\/blog\/?p=11676"},"modified":"2019-04-30T09:11:05","modified_gmt":"2019-04-30T14:11:05","slug":"friendship-day-going-into-business-with-friends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hostgator.com\/blog\/friendship-day-going-into-business-with-friends\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy Friendship Day! 7 Reasons Why Going Into Business With Your Friend Can Be Truly Great"},"content":{"rendered":"<style type=\"text\/css\">\n.button {<br \/>\n    display: block;<br \/>\n    margin: 0 auto;<br \/>\n    width: 370px;<br \/>\n    height: 55px;<br \/>\n    font: 700 24px\/50px \"Trebuchet MS\", Arial;<br \/>\n    text-align: center;<br \/>\n    color: #1f1f1f;<br \/>\n    background: url(https:\/\/www.hostgator.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/button.png);<br \/>\n}<\/p>\n<p>.button:hover {<br \/>\n    background-position: 0 -55px;<br \/>\n}<br \/>\n<\/style>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11677\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hostgator.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Friendship-Day.png\" alt=\"Friendship Day\" width=\"1200\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hostgator.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Friendship-Day.png 1200w, https:\/\/www.hostgator.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Friendship-Day-300x150.png 300w, https:\/\/www.hostgator.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Friendship-Day-768x384.png 768w, https:\/\/www.hostgator.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Friendship-Day-1024x512.png 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Jobs and Wozniak, Hewlett and Packard, Procter and Gamble, Ben &amp; Jerry'\u00a6 there\u2019s a reason these famous business partnerships resonate with us. These companies (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/10-super-successful-cofounders-and-why-their-partnerships-worked-2011-6?op=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span class=\"s2\">and many more<\/span><\/a>) were founded by friends.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">And it makes sense. We hear of the inventor who single-handedly had the bright idea to do x or y and change the world, but when it comes to business, we often hear stories of friends experiencing something together, or waxing philosophically, when one of them says something along the lines of, 'Hey, what if we did this?'\u009d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">With Friendship Day coming up this Sunday, we at HostGator reached out to entrepreneurs who had started businesses with their friends. We wanted to know: What\u2019s unique about having a friend as a business partner? What are the pros and cons to running a business with your friend?<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Overwhelmingly, the entrepreneurs responded positively, eager to share the advantages that make co-founding a business with your friend an unparalleled experience.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">1. Your friendship defines the office culture<\/span><\/h2>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">When you\u2019re working with friends, work simply becomes more fun. Shared laughter and inside jokes are invaluable as you\u2019re working on the monumental task of building a business. <\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_11716\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11716\" style=\"width: 240px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11716 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hostgator.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Mallory-Musante-Anna-Osgoodby-240x300.png\" alt=\"Mallory Musante and Anna Osgoodby\" width=\"240\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hostgator.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Mallory-Musante-Anna-Osgoodby-240x300.png 240w, https:\/\/www.hostgator.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Mallory-Musante-Anna-Osgoodby.png 700w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-11716\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mallory Musante and Anna Osgoodby<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Mallory Musante, co-founder of <a href=\"http:\/\/boldandpop.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Bold &amp; Pop<\/a>&nbsp;with Anna Osgoodby, says it\u2019s the best of both worlds. 'Not only does having a friend\/business partner make running a business easier with the support they provide but it also makes it fun! We may get stressed but we\u2019re there to pull each other up and then celebrate with each other later!'\u009d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Granted, there are those who tout the importance of having a work\/life balance, but many co-founding friends embrace bringing their life to work. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">'[As] an entrepreneur, it is hard to balance work with a healthy social life as I am constantly trying to promote and develop my business. Having a friend as my business partner helps make the balance much easier,'\u009d shares Ravel Charles, who started <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gamelearners.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span class=\"s2\">Game Learners<\/span><\/a> with friend and college classmate Samantha Gignac. 'It makes for a fun working environment. The '\u02dcoffice-culture\u2019 is dictated directly by our friendship.'\u009d<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">2. You have each other\u2019s backs<\/span><\/h2>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">It\u2019s not rocket science &#8211; of course it\u2019s easier to trust your new business partner when it\u2019s someone you\u2019ve been friends with for years. This foundation of trust allows you to focus on the task at hand of building and growing your business. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s2\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bonappetour.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">BonAppetour<\/a><\/span><span class=\"s1\"> is a startup founded by Rinita Vanjre and Inez Wihardjo, who met at university and came up with their business idea when they were backpacking around Europe and couldn\u2019t find a restaurant that was open. Having that trust established allowed them to move forward towards growing their business, rather than getting bogged down in some of the legal particulars of founding a company.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">'It\u2019s easy to trust each other, and not doubt the other person, especially in the early stages of the business when the most important thing is the growth, rather than things like getting equity papers sorted out, and the shareholding structure'\u00a6 Of course, that is important, but when there is a comfortable friendship already, setting up those structures takes a backseat in the face of growth.'\u009d<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_11715\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11715\" style=\"width: 570px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11715\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hostgator.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/BonAppetour.jpg\" alt=\"Rinita Vanjre and Inez Wihardjo\" width=\"570\" height=\"309\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hostgator.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/BonAppetour.jpg 570w, https:\/\/www.hostgator.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/BonAppetour-300x163.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 570px) 100vw, 570px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-11715\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rinita Vanjre and Inez Wihardjo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">3. You know each other\u2019s strengths and weaknesses<\/span><\/h2>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Part of what makes friendship great is that we are aware of our friends\u2019 faults, but we love them anyway. Lifelong friends also know what their friends can do better than they can. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Successful business partnerships often involve founders who complement each other\u2019s strengths and weaknesses. You have this with Walt and Roy Disney. Walt was the unbridled creative, and Roy was the sensible financier. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Aron Ezra and Keith Michel are childhood friends and have co-founded two businesses together, the most recent of which is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.offercraft.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">OfferCraft<\/a>, a software startup in the hospitality industry. Having worked together for nearly a decade, they can provide a unique perspective. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Their advice for new entrepreneurs? Find a co-founder who loves doing the things you hate doing. <\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_11714\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11714\" style=\"width: 250px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11714\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hostgator.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Dan-Grech-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"Dan Grech\" width=\"250\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hostgator.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Dan-Grech-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hostgator.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Dan-Grech-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.hostgator.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Dan-Grech-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.hostgator.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Dan-Grech-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.hostgator.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Dan-Grech.jpg 1285w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-11714\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dan Grech<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Dan Grech, VP of Marketing and Public Relations for OfferCraft, says this is why they work so well together. 'Aron loves talking about the business to new people, whether it&#8217;s reporters, sales prospects or recruits; Keith prefers working intensely with members of his team. Aron enjoys coming up with new ideas; Keith loves figuring out ways to turn those ideas into elegant pieces of code. When you are friends, you understand each other &#8212; both your similar values and your different preferences. By understanding your differences, you never step on your co-founders&#8217; toes. In fact, Aron and Keith are always incredibly relieved (and a little incredulous) when the second person happily steps up to tackle the tasks that the first person is dreading.'\u009d<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">4. You\u2019re more accountable<\/span><\/h2>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Going into business with a friend has a tendency to raise the stakes. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">When their best friendship turned long-distance, Michael Noker and Jessica Cadena launched the <span class=\"s2\">Get Two Fit<\/span> fitness blog to stay in touch. Michael shared, 'The emotional attachment you have to your business doubles, triples, explodes through the roof. It&#8217;s not just your baby &#8211; it&#8217;s the product of your relationship. The stakes are high because failure could mean fallout. We have to compartmentalize pretty much constantly, because it needs to be clear when we&#8217;re talking business or friendship, work or play.'\u009d<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_11713\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11713\" style=\"width: 700px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11713\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hostgator.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Get-Two-Fit-Founders.jpg\" alt=\"Jessica Cadena and Michael Noker\" width=\"700\" height=\"354\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hostgator.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Get-Two-Fit-Founders.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.hostgator.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Get-Two-Fit-Founders-300x152.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-11713\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jessica Cadena and Michael Noker<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Michael attributes their productivity to their devotion to their friendship. 'As an entrepreneur, you&#8217;re married to your passion. You invest all your time, money, and energy &#8211; everything you need for a social life, health, and sanity. When you&#8217;re going into business with a friend, you&#8217;re married to your passion and to another person. You have someone to bounce ideas off of. You can cheer each other on. You&#8217;re accountable to somebody. You each have strengths and weaknesses, so you can split the workload. You can&#8217;t fail because you don&#8217;t know what it would mean for the friendship, so you work that much harder. It&#8217;s scary, it&#8217;s precarious, and it&#8217;s not for everybody, but when it works, it works perfectly.'\u009d<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">5. You know how to support each other<\/span><\/h2>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The saccharine phrase 'that\u2019s what friends are for'\u009d holds true in business, too. Friends can tell when you\u2019re feeling down, and they know how to give you a boost when you need it most.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_11711\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11711\" style=\"width: 210px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11711\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hostgator.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Dave-Olly-Dijitul-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"Dave and Olly\" width=\"210\" height=\"140\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hostgator.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Dave-Olly-Dijitul-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hostgator.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Dave-Olly-Dijitul-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.hostgator.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Dave-Olly-Dijitul.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 210px) 100vw, 210px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-11711\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Olly Mooney and Dave Hartshorne<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"p4\"><span class=\"s3\">Dave Hartshorne and Olly Mooney were friends for over a decade before they started the digital agency <a href=\"http:\/\/dijitul.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span class=\"s2\">Dijitul<\/span><\/a>. '<\/span><span class=\"s1\">We know when the other one is having a bad day, when to try and cheer them up, and when to stay well clear and let them have their moment! Basically, we know what makes each other tick,'\u009d they shared. 'This has meant we&#8217;ve managed to work together for over ten years now and stay really good friends despite all the stresses that having a business brings.'\u009d<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_11712\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11712\" style=\"width: 150px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-11712\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hostgator.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Yuri-Khlystov-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Yuri Khlystov\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hostgator.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Yuri-Khlystov-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.hostgator.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Yuri-Khlystov-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hostgator.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Yuri-Khlystov.jpg 310w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-11712\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Yuri Khlystov<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Yuri Khlystov, co-founder of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.laowaicareer.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span class=\"s2\">Laowai Career<\/span><\/a> job board, says the dynamic between business partners is more like a friendship than people may think. 'Businesses run for years and require stable and trustworthy people to work side by side, just like a good friendship. To be an entrepreneur, you have to love what you do. Having a <\/span><span class=\"s1\">friend through thick and thin who is going through what you are going through provides stability (and is fun!).'\u009d<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">6. You already have experience solving problems together.<\/span><\/h2>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">If you\u2019ve been friends for some time, chances are you\u2019ve already solved problems together, whether it\u2019s as simple of a decision as deciding where to go out to eat, or assigning chores as roommates. When Felicia Schneiderhan founded <a href=\"http:\/\/www.30secondstofly.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span class=\"s2\">30SecondstoFly<\/span><\/a>, she recruited her best friend and roommate of nearly five years to lead the marketing team.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_11710\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11710\" style=\"width: 280px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11710\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hostgator.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Felicia-Schneiderhan.jpg\" alt=\"Felicia Schneiderhan\" width=\"280\" height=\"279\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hostgator.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Felicia-Schneiderhan.jpg 303w, https:\/\/www.hostgator.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Felicia-Schneiderhan-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.hostgator.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Felicia-Schneiderhan-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 280px) 100vw, 280px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-11710\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Felicia Schneiderhan<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">'Now we are dividing our time between New York, Bangkok, and Berlin, and are balancing the friendship and roommate situation with a work relationship,'\u009d Schneiderhan shares. 'I think it is important to consciously work on maintaining a healthy relationship, both in business and personally. In our case, we even entered into a hierarchical asymmetry, which complicates it further. Against all odds, I think this setup works so well for us, because we learned to develop a bulletproof conflict-solving mechanism early on as roommates, even before we started working together. Whenever we face a situation in which we disagree or misunderstand each other, we care a lot about understanding the other\u2019s perspective. We then look for a way to avoid similar conflict in the future.'\u009d<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">7. Your friendship will survive, even if the business doesn\u2019t.<\/span><\/h2>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">It\u2019s sad, but true: eighty percent of new businesses <a href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/ericwagner\/2013\/09\/12\/five-reasons-8-out-of-10-businesses-fail\/#6a5d7fe95e3c\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span class=\"s2\">fail within the first eighteen months<\/span><\/a>. With the deck seemingly stacked against new businesses, having a friend as a co-owner can help tip the scale a bit back in your favor, as the six points above demonstrate. You know how to work with your co-founder, you trust them, and best yet, you\u2019ve solved problems together before. Unfortunately, though, sometimes businesses just don\u2019t work out. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The silver lining here is that if your business fails, you\u2019ll have a friend to lean on who knows exactly what you\u2019re going through.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-11709\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hostgator.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Ryan-Robinson.png\" alt=\"Ryan Robinson\" width=\"232\" height=\"160\">Ryan Robinson has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ryrob.com\/should-you-start-business-with-friend\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span class=\"s2\">written extensively about starting a business with a friend<\/span><\/a>, having done it himself a few years ago. He now advises entrepreneurs on starting their own side business. Robinson and his best friend experienced rapid growth after starting their business, but eventually the revenue 'began to flatten out at a level that would only provide either two people with a mediocre income or one person with the type of lifestyle we both aspired to obtain. Despite experimenting with new growth levers, it was becoming apparent that our business was really best-suited to be ran by one person, which created some tension around whether one of us should continue with the company or if it should be shuttered to avoid damaging our friendship,'\u009d Robinson shares.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">After much late-night discussions, he decided to sell his half to his friend. They\u2019ve remained best friends through it all, Robinson notes, but it did take a few months for them to be able to move on and return to being just friends. Based on his experience, Robinson recommends that new entrepreneurs 'have very candid conversations about what your course of action will be in the event the business fails, one of you needs to be bought out or in the event of other negative outcomes that you&#8217;ll want to plan for ahead of time.'\u009d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><em><span class=\"s1\">Are you thinking of starting a business with a friend? We hope these entrepreneurial insights have inspired you!<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<h4 class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><span class=\"s1\">You know if you\u2019re going to be starting a business, you&#8217;re going to need a website. 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