How to start a business with friends, not hurt feelings?

Recently, the co-founder of a kind company http://www.aliyun.com/zixun/aggregation/19330.html ">erica Cerulo published articles on the Mashable of well-known science and technology blogs, The story of her and her friend's joint venture was introduced. A kind this website specializes in the work of rookie designers, founded in 2010, the article is roughly as follows:

A woman and her friends start a business, like me, then people usually have two ideas, or start a business will become a slumber party as noisy, or completely crazy doomed to failure.

But I have been with a good friend Clair Mazur with the creation of a kind has been 4 years, luckily we have no similar experience. And we all think the combination is the strongest and the most impressive part of our entrepreneurial process. Here are 8 lessons we've summed up in this process:

1. Use common experience

Before we started our business, Clair and I had been friends for 10 years, and the best thing about startups was that we went through a lot together. We are very familiar with the temperament of the entrepreneurial partners, and in the process of entrepreneurship, from making presentations to recruiting staff, this familiarity is very helpful.

2. Positioning roles

Although each day we will exchange ideas, but in the early days of entrepreneurship, we have a very clear positioning of their responsibilities, so we will not all give the same letter to reply, will not deliberately to rob each other's credit. 11545.html "> We have a very clear classification of responsibilities, and record it in a form, and often take it out and look at it."

3. Stay independent, don't be confused

In fact, this is often the case, and there is basically no way, so stay independent.

4. Schedule Time for Solitude

At work we basically stay together, meet, eat, and play together. But our agreement is not to meet on weekends unless you are in a joint friend's wedding or something.

5. Leave some time for friendship

After a common venture to continue before the habit of doing something unrelated to the work, such as gossip, talk about sports competitions and so on.

6. The introduction of new recruits, but at the same time continue to keep separate discussions

This is actually the biggest challenge in the process of starting a business, and we want every employee to feel like a part of the company, not one of our two assistants. But after a lot of people, we lack the opportunity to discuss things face-to-face. So, starting this year we started with only two founders of the week, not getting involved, planning this week's work.

7. Prioritize Things

The more successful our business is, the more confident we will be that we will no longer struggle with small problems, which means that we devote our energies to the key issues and rationally allocate our energies.

8. Maintain certain habits

I have a habit, that is, 3 o'clock in the afternoon to 5 every day, the brain will suddenly malfunction, this time we are willing to read things out. And Clair every 2 hours to eat things, and the morning will be bad, so we adapt to each other, I try not to trouble her, and in the afternoon she will listen to me read a few paragraphs of text, so good.