Business with Friends

Starting a company is an intimidating prospect. It involves lots of moving parts with lots of long workdays. So, it’d make sense to go into it with someone you trust and who you know you get along with. And there are plenty of success stories of friends turned co-founders like Ben & Jerry and Hewlett & Packard. But for every successful story of friendship to business partnership, there are many more that just simply don’t work out. Here to talk with us today about the realities of starting a company with a friends and factors to be aware of throughout the process is bestselling author and dean of Yeshiva University’s Sy Syms School of Business, Dr. Noam Wasserman!