Asklemmy

44170 readers

1558 users here now

A loosely moderated place to ask open-ended questions

Search asklemmy 🔍

If your post meets the following criteria, it's welcome here!

Open-ended question
Not offensive: at this point, we do not have the bandwidth to moderate overtly political discussions. Assume best intent and be excellent to each other.
Not regarding using or support for Lemmy: context, see the list of support communities and tools for finding communities below
Not ad nauseam inducing: please make sure it is a question that would be new to most members
An actual topic of discussion

Looking for support?

Looking for a community?

Lemmyverse: community search
sub.rehab: maps old subreddits to fediverse options, marks official as such
!lemmy411@lemmy.ca: a community for finding communities

~Icon~ ~by~ ~@Double_A@discuss.tchncs.de~

founded 5 years ago

MODERATORS

218

What's the most expensive lesson you've learned? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 year ago by TheImpressiveX@lemmy.ml to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

202 comments fedilink hide all child comments

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] RalphWolf@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Don't ever trust a friend in business. Maybe it works out, maybe you almost lose everything.

[–] Dubious_Fart@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago

never go into business with anyone you know, especially family, without 1) An iron clad contract explicitly stating powers, ownership, and responsibilities and 2) being able to walk away from your entire goddamn fucking family.