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		<title>If First Employees are Friends?</title>
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				<title><![CDATA[I too have lost some very good f]]></title>
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				<description><![CDATA[I too have lost some very good friends because we worked together.&#160; It always seems like a good idea, but most times it does not work out.&#160; If you ahve to hire a friend, get everything on paper and remember if they leave you will loose a friend. [...]]]></description>
				<pubDate>Tue, 11 Dec 2007 14:18:06 GMT</pubDate>
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				<title><![CDATA[Having been down this road and h]]></title>
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				<description><![CDATA[Having been down this road and having lost good friends and caused ripples in the family by hiring family.&#160; I strongly recommend you avoid hiring them.
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				<pubDate>Tue, 11 Dec 2007 14:18:06 GMT</pubDate>
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				<title><![CDATA[Personally I strongly suggest if]]></title>
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				<description><![CDATA[Personally I strongly suggest if you value your friendship, I would not hire them. It may be fine for a year, 2 or even more but when something goes wrong you can pretty much count your friendship over. If you truely value them, stay friends and no more]]></description>
				<pubDate>Tue, 11 Dec 2007 14:18:06 GMT</pubDate>
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				<title><![CDATA[My father told me something when]]></title>
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				<description><![CDATA[My father told me something when I was 18, starting my first band: He
said "You can be a manager or someone`s friend, but you can never be
both."

Of course at 18, I knew a whole lot more than my father. And, as Mark
Twain pointed out, the old]]></description>
				<pubDate>Tue, 11 Dec 2007 14:18:06 GMT</pubDate>
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				<title><![CDATA[It is a good idea to go about it]]></title>
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				<description><![CDATA[It is a good idea to go about it as if they were not friends or family. Sometimes it is even more difficult with friends or family because they may feel the regular rules and job duties do not apply to them. Follow the same procedure as if it were someo]]></description>
				<pubDate>Tue, 11 Dec 2007 14:18:06 GMT</pubDate>
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				<title><![CDATA[I think it is a good idea to do ]]></title>
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				<description><![CDATA[I think it is a good idea to do things in writing, even with friends.&nbsp; In fact, good friends should understand that this is a smart way to run a business and will be glad to do it.
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				<pubDate>Tue, 11 Dec 2007 14:18:06 GMT</pubDate>
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				<title><![CDATA[If my first employees are friend]]></title>
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				<description><![CDATA[If my first employees are friends, should I have them sign an NDA, or any other paperwork to avoids that if things go wrong, they tell my ideas to someone else, become competitor?]]></description>
				<pubDate>Tue, 11 Dec 2007 14:18:06 GMT</pubDate>
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