Starting a business with a friend?
Here, a pair of successful co-founders share their five key tips to creating a thriving career, together.
But its still not impossible to successfully hack the very unique relationship that is co-founder and BFF.
Five years later, the pair still considers themselves the very best of career partnersandfriends.
The podcaststoked their twin flamesand neither one has burned out.
The duo has plenty of advice to offer any friends on the precipice of a lucrative, fulfilling partnership.
Elizabeth Kott is the founder of Closet Rich and the co-founder of the hit wellness podcast, “That’s So Retrograde.”
5 tips for starting a business with a friend
1.
In the beginning, Stephanie was a comic.
Ask questions like, Are there areas of the business we are each more passionate about than others?
and What roles will we each play in the business?
and Are there responsibilities that it makes sense we share?
Others we should divide?
It can help each person understand the others preferred communication style, she says.
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Just recently, we had someone read our charts together because I was feeling so unmotivated, says Simbari.
Elizabeth Kott is the founder of Closet Rich and the co-founder of the hit wellness podcast, “That’s So Retrograde.”
I was feeling guilty, Elizabeth was feeling driven.
And then we were like, Okay, cool, great.
We can drop this.
We work with an incredible business coach,Amina AlTai.
By compartmentalizing your time at work, you’re able to still leave room for your friendship.
After all, youwerefriends first.
Remember that youre friends at the end of the day, says Simbari.
Your business will never be a stagnant thingand youll have to roll with the punches (and delights).
Kott says that COVID-19 changed theThats So Retrogradebusiness, but ultimately, it was for the better.
And in the process, weve completely retooled the structure [of the show].
Just like a friendship, a business grows with change.
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