I agree with all of this except the one week thing. But the thing is, these deadlines were self-imposed. It wasn't like someone else was imminently about to re

I agree with all of this except the one week thing. But the thing is, these deadlines were self-imposed. It wasn't like someone else was imminently about to release a similar app and they had to race to get it working. At least spend the time to get it working and fully-functional before really shopping it around. Rather they wanted to churn out some half-baked, random "good sounding" idea and then when they got funding race to make it work. In my experience when I'm building an app or something, I learn a lot about what features make sense and what's going to be really hard to implement while building it out privately or with a small team. I/we address those issues and look for solutions or other ways around and aren't on a schedule to ship some product and hire some backend database developer to fill some huge knowledge/experience gap on short notice. Of course hindsight is 20/20, but I think not jumping the gun like this should be good business practice. Really I see no reason why someone had to quit their job for something that wasn't even functional. If it's functional and getting some traction and has funding, great, quit your job and do it full time, imo. As an aside and maybe an unpopular opinion, I really doubt the founder's long-haired look was helping the brand's perceived legitimacy. Though I don't have a problem with it personally, I know the "out there" look can turn a lot of people off.