With that said, please think about if this is really the right time to make the jump. As you know, an idea is worthless, it’s about execution. Testing can take forever to find the right direction to go in. When I was making the jump I always told myself that we’d figure something out before our runway ran short. We had so much time to do it, how could we not? Well, we ran out of time and could never find that key feature to make us profitable. I did a million things completely wrong and so will you, but you don’t need to quit your job to make those mistakes and learn from them. I always try to encourage people who want to make a similar jump to make the really dumb mistakes when you can pay your bills with a 9-5, not when those mistakes can cause you not to eat for a night. I personally think it’s a bad idea for anyone to quit a job just to waste time building and testing an idea. I feel it’s best to make the jump when you find something that’s working and use all the new free time you get from quitting the 9-5 to sell/test/improve that. When you find that revenue driving feature or idea you can easily improve on what you have, but If you have nothing you can be stuck trying to find it forever.
I wish you the best of luck, and I'm looking forward to reading more updates as the company grows. Your team sounds like it has a lot more experience going in than mine did, so I'm sure you will figure something out soon.
If you're interested where I am now, I’m actually writing this from my desk at the same 9-5 I quit a year ago. That’s right, I’m back working at the same place I left (I guess they liked :) ). I don’t regret a thing, but in hindsight I do wish I waited until the vision I was going on was a little more clear and mature. I'm 100% sure I'm going to give it another shot in the future, and I'll get a lot further than I did this time thanks to everything I've learned.