Friend`s friend means one more new friend only.People will know each other step by step,
You can open your heart diectly to everyone but you need understand that different people got different style with different plan for different expectations.
Do you have ability to make the project success for long term?
Don`t invest new friend immediately until you really got enough experiences and patience to deal with different kinds of people plus the new friend could understand your main intention on majority things.
Fyi.tks