The day my business collapsed, the world did not end loudly. It ended quietly, with unpaid invoices, returned cheques, and a landlord knocking on my office door asking for arrears.
What had taken me four years to build fell apart in less than three months.
A bad partnership, a delayed shipment, and cash flow mismanagement were enough to sink me.
But what hurt more than the financial loss was the laughter.
Some of them were people I once called friends. …CONTINUE READING