How Cofounders Can Prevent Their Relationship from Derailing

The success of your relationship is directly correlated to the success of your business, and your cofounder is the key person you turn to to help manage the emotional ups and downs of your startup. The author has discovered five key principles you can incorporate to prevent destructive antagonism with your co-worker before it happens.

When you start and grow a company with a partner, they become your key relationship. People don't think about how to make partnerships work in business because there is no more intimate relationship. According to Noam Wasserman, author of The Founder's Dilemma, 70% of startup fail because of conflict.