[Mz]

Can you do some outsourcing for things like marketing expertise or help dealing with customers? Can you cut costs to address the financial "horizon" issue?

Using the marriage analogy, "shotgun weddings" sometimes work because the baby keeps people together. If this is not their baby (ie they weren't in on it from the get go), well, it looks a lot tougher to me to make it stick.

Good luck with this.