You love each other, trust each other and know each other better than anyone else. You share interests and often ideas – including one for an exciting business project together, perhaps. But what is it really like to launch a work venture with your BFF? Startup culture and the exceptional success of companies like Google or Apple have helped romanticise the myth of friends turned billionaire entrepreneurs. Mixing work and relationships is always a risky business. “The rise of micro firms will inevitably lead to friends as business partners,” says Robert Blackburn, the associate dean for research at Kingston University’s business [...]