A close friend of mine has recently, with my help, set up a cake making business. We came up with the name together, I gave her loads of business advice, hosted (and paid for ingredients for) a big baking day and took photographs for her website. She seems to be doing well (it's alongside her FT job) and I'm really pleased for her.
I love baking and business, and live about 150 miles away from her now. I've recently got back into making heavily decorated cupcakes and had a few offers to buy them from friends of friends.
I know all of the business stuff (from a previous catering business effort) and its something that I basically do anyway, so I could slot it into my life easily. I live in a very affulent area so could make some healthy sales.
But the business would basically be the same as close friend's. We are completely seperate areas (London vs Midlands) so I wouldn't be intruding on her territory, but I feel honour bound to ask if she's okay with me setting up, particularly so soon after she has.
We have a few mutual friends who would probably "like" both social media pages but other than that there wouldn't be any crossover.
I know that she has no grounds to stop me from setting up, nor would it affect her but I feel a bit weird about it. I feel like the polite thing to do would be to discuss it, but also worry that I'd be making a "thing" out of it by making a point of talking about it too.
AIBU to "ask" her?
WIBU to just set up without discussing it first, or is she likely to be a bit about it?
I don't want her to think I'm stealing her thunder.
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to ask "permission" from friend to start up similar business?
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RentANDBills · 27/10/2016 13:10
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