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SmootSmack · 01-12-2010, 09:35 PM

I co-started a media company a few years ago and I learned two key lessons

1. Good friends don't necessarily make good business partners
2. Bad business can ruin good friendships

In spite of that though, I was able to get the company to the point that we were having serious discussions with a similar company to merge and I would stay in a managerial/ownership role. But as those talks lingered ESPN came calling and I took that opportunity...a couple of years later that company was bought by ESPN for a few million dollars. Yay me...sigh

01-12-2010, 09:35 PM	#10
SmootSmack Uncle Phil Join Date: Feb 2004 Posts: 45,256	Re: start your own business I co-started a media company a few years ago and I learned two key lessons 1. Good friends don't necessarily make good business partners 2. Bad business can ruin good friendships In spite of that though, I was able to get the company to the point that we were having serious discussions with a similar company to merge and I would stay in a managerial/ownership role. But as those talks lingered ESPN came calling and I took that opportunity...a couple of years later that company was bought by ESPN for a few million dollars. Yay me...sigh __________________ You're So Vain...You Probably Think This Sig Is About You

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