Wow, this sounds remarkably similar to my situation except there is me and just one other friend and we've been doing it a couple months less than you.
I'm going to talk with my friend this weekend and get things sorted out. The worst case is that I will just launch the site as a minimalistic version and then work on a separate business idea by myself.
I think the main problem is that my friend is completely non-technical. I was relying on him to do the marketing.
As a follow up question, how do you separate duties between a technical founder and a non-technical founder in the first few months of a startup so that all people have equal amounts of work?
With my idea, I was prepared to invest more up-front time as I was solely developing the website with the expectation that my partner would get things going at the appropriate time.
I guess that is a mistake in hindsight.
This comment probably doesn't help you in any way but hopefully we can learn something for the next time.
I'm going to talk with my friend this weekend and get things sorted out. The worst case is that I will just launch the site as a minimalistic version and then work on a separate business idea by myself.
I think the main problem is that my friend is completely non-technical. I was relying on him to do the marketing.
As a follow up question, how do you separate duties between a technical founder and a non-technical founder in the first few months of a startup so that all people have equal amounts of work?
With my idea, I was prepared to invest more up-front time as I was solely developing the website with the expectation that my partner would get things going at the appropriate time.
I guess that is a mistake in hindsight.
This comment probably doesn't help you in any way but hopefully we can learn something for the next time.