Keeping business separate from personal or charitable lanes is something everybody in business needs to work towards.
This is a business. It has to be treated as such.
Your startup business is a baby that needs to be nurtured till it takes on a life of its own. That, however will not happen unless the founder is ready to take really tough decisions.
The business lane has got to stay strictly business. Don’t sign up partners based only on emotional reasons, give your family members money and support to do what they want to do, don’t sign automagically into your workforce.
Develop the wisdom to know who you should bill heavily for work done and who to give free work to.
Never never never never mix up your business lanes and the others. Nurture your baby, don’t sniff life out of it.
