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Thanks. My (still employed) partner and I are actually taking on small consulting projects right now just to make sure we have money coming in. We vehemently do not want to get into services, but it's hard to have a strategy without resources! At the very least, it gives him something constructive to do coding-wise while I'm pounding the pavement.

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Word of caution. If one person is still employed, but the other is not, it makes for a very difficult partnership. There's just a lot of risk that the work distribution will eventually become too imbalanced; either your partner will burn out way faster than you'd expect, or you'll be too annoyed with the lack of effort that your partner puts in.

Not saying this will happen to you guys. Just saying there's a risk. Speaking from personal experience.

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