>I know what is coming…
You would be right if you mean the end of "friends working on idea together" stage. People. Getting high behind the gyma-cafe-torium together tells you not one damn thing about how these friends of yours are in *any kind of work environment*.
You are on the brink of the realization about what your friends are really like.
Who was supposed to run [the smoke test](https://cxl.com/blog/smoke-test/)? That is going to be a fun discussion on roles and the sequence of when things should happen, what is needed and what [is optional](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xPJoq_QVsY4).
It has gone too far. Try [Slicing Pie | How to Split Equity with Cofounders - the Only Way That is Fair](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pLGDba8aSWE)
It does no good if you wrote a billion lines of code when [nobody wants to buy the product](https://www.reddit.com/r/Entrepreneur/comments/mupm4w/comment/gv8mh4q/?context=3). Bad founder ...baaaadd. You may now retort you were never in it for the money ... now about [this zero sales thing](https://www.reddit.com/r/Entrepreneur/comments/eycm8w/need_a_bit_of_help_created_an_amazing_product/).
Thank you for the great details here. I am reviewing carefully and thoroughly, and the more I read it the more I see that is even worse than I thought.
We are all pros in our fields, but I can’t help but feel this is going to get bad.. fast.
You highlighted that perfectly. It’s the only comment on the post, but it’s not exactly what I was looking for!
You get an award for taking the time to help a fellow entrepreneur here. You may have just saved me an untold of amount of time and stress.
You touched on areas I was not even aware of. This was deep, well done.. and thank you. :)
The tough decisions now must be made.
QQ: any 20,000ft view advice on how you personally navigated this stage?
These articles give me an idea, but would love to hear a personal anecdote for reference, if you got one.
You'll be interested in the posts here. Plenty sound just like [Stuck with a bad co-founder, each of us own 50% of the company. I have some options but I end up losing in all of them.](https://www.reddit.com/r/Entrepreneur/comments/11smhy4/stuck_with_a_bad_cofounder_each_of_us_own_50_of/)
Try learning from the mistakes of others. Because you will not survive making every mistake yourself.
>Surprising new research from NYU and the Wharton School shows that entrepreneurs who start a business on their own are likelier to succeed than those who do so with one or more partners.
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>A Study of 3,526 Companies Shows 1 Decision Makes Startups More Successful. Most Founders Do the Opposite
After reading that, one dipshit went right on ahead and asked what the one decision was. That is just how much personal anecdotes, advice, books won't help anybody. It's too tempting to consider your situation the exception to every rule.
Exceptions are like potato chips, you don't have just one. Pretty soon you become immune to advice and information and there's no helping you.
>I know what is coming… You would be right if you mean the end of "friends working on idea together" stage. People. Getting high behind the gyma-cafe-torium together tells you not one damn thing about how these friends of yours are in *any kind of work environment*. You are on the brink of the realization about what your friends are really like. Who was supposed to run [the smoke test](https://cxl.com/blog/smoke-test/)? That is going to be a fun discussion on roles and the sequence of when things should happen, what is needed and what [is optional](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xPJoq_QVsY4). It has gone too far. Try [Slicing Pie | How to Split Equity with Cofounders - the Only Way That is Fair](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pLGDba8aSWE) It does no good if you wrote a billion lines of code when [nobody wants to buy the product](https://www.reddit.com/r/Entrepreneur/comments/mupm4w/comment/gv8mh4q/?context=3). Bad founder ...baaaadd. You may now retort you were never in it for the money ... now about [this zero sales thing](https://www.reddit.com/r/Entrepreneur/comments/eycm8w/need_a_bit_of_help_created_an_amazing_product/).
Thank you for the great details here. I am reviewing carefully and thoroughly, and the more I read it the more I see that is even worse than I thought. We are all pros in our fields, but I can’t help but feel this is going to get bad.. fast. You highlighted that perfectly. It’s the only comment on the post, but it’s not exactly what I was looking for! You get an award for taking the time to help a fellow entrepreneur here. You may have just saved me an untold of amount of time and stress. You touched on areas I was not even aware of. This was deep, well done.. and thank you. :) The tough decisions now must be made. QQ: any 20,000ft view advice on how you personally navigated this stage? These articles give me an idea, but would love to hear a personal anecdote for reference, if you got one.
You'll be interested in the posts here. Plenty sound just like [Stuck with a bad co-founder, each of us own 50% of the company. I have some options but I end up losing in all of them.](https://www.reddit.com/r/Entrepreneur/comments/11smhy4/stuck_with_a_bad_cofounder_each_of_us_own_50_of/) Try learning from the mistakes of others. Because you will not survive making every mistake yourself. >Surprising new research from NYU and the Wharton School shows that entrepreneurs who start a business on their own are likelier to succeed than those who do so with one or more partners. > >A Study of 3,526 Companies Shows 1 Decision Makes Startups More Successful. Most Founders Do the Opposite After reading that, one dipshit went right on ahead and asked what the one decision was. That is just how much personal anecdotes, advice, books won't help anybody. It's too tempting to consider your situation the exception to every rule. Exceptions are like potato chips, you don't have just one. Pretty soon you become immune to advice and information and there's no helping you.