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by rpq1480 5001 days ago
I think that part of the reason why working with your friends and family gets a bad name, is that when it goes wrong, it goes spectacularly wrong. So even if it might be successful a decent percentage of the time, the fear of that cataclysmic blow up prevents people from taking the plunge.

I think that using some of the techniques outlined in the article certainly mitigate that risk.