Blut ist dicker als Wasser*

Tu sangre familiar vale más que una gran cantidad de amistades** 

As already mentioned in the previous post, I did go down the treacherous path of getting married at the business altar with “my friends.” This experience was and still is my path to winning the Oscar for Best Screenplay due to the look of astonishment, confusion, shock and laughter that I get in one go when explaining to others how quickly and why the milk turned sour with “my friends.” Without losing the grip on my future Oscar, here are a few tidbits from my time being locked up with “my friends” or should I say warnings to up and coming entrepreneurs wanting to go into business with their “friends:”

1. If your friend sees themselves as the next “Julius Caesar,” leave the knife in the kitchen but think twice before signing on the dotted line.
2.  If your friend has the number of the local shop selling clothes for strippers on speed dial, think wisely about whether or not opening a language school is the right venture.
3.  If your friends have a tendency for fish and rubber, maybe you should be thinking about opening a restaurant specializing in fish and where the dress code is latex rubber…

All in all think long and extremely hard when deciding to join hands with your friends as the cut can be very painful when and if it occurs. To avoid getting your hands cut off or ironically describing your former business partners as “friends,” consider going down the altar with your family or receiving support from them. As in the end, regardless of how well you know and trust your friend, once you have signed on the dotted line, the seven deadly sins will come into play in every possible shape and size and if your family does not model themselves on the Ewing family from Dallas, you will be in safer hands. 


If they had no problem in cleaning up your “sh**” when you were a little monster, they will most probably have no problem in cleaning up your "sh**” when you are a grown up monster!

   

Lesson 4:  Business and pleasure doesn’t mix when dealing with friends.  




* ( A German Proverb: Blood is thicker than water).


** ( A Spanish Proverb: An ounce of blood is worth more than a pound of friendship).