[MicahWedemeyer]

I’ve lost friends because they thought I was crazy to try to build my own company.

Huh? What kind of friend tosses you aside because you decide to start a company? That makes absolutely no sense. I'm trying to imagine this conversation:

You: I'm starting my own company!

Friend: I think that's a crazy idea. You'll probably fail.

You: I'm confident I can do it.

Friend: I disagree, and we're not friends any more.

If anything, friends usually way underestimate the difficulty of running a business and just throw platitudes at you like, "Do it! Follow your dreams! With passion you can't fail!"

[abherrera]

As a woman I've had friends, male and female, give their opinions of why I shouldn't build my company. Many of the conversations go back to the concept of I should be doing what most women my age do... get a great 9-5 job, meet a guy, and have a family. It's been hard and surprising to have very close friends, many who are very pro women's rights and liberal, express these view points. I would never tell any of these friends they were wrong to...get a job, meet someone, get married, and have a family. So friendships ended because of a lack of common ground.

I like the conversation you created though. It actually would have been easier if your comments were true.

Thanks for sharing your thoughts.

[skreech]

Could be she lost friends (or superficial friends) because they were envious of her trying to build her own company, but on the surface they were saying "that will never work" instead of "I hate you for trying".