I’m getting sick of my co-founders. We’re four people and when it comes to webdesign everyone wants to have a word, even though I’m the only one that actually ever worked in the area professionally. Decisions are taking way too long.

I know exactly what you are going through. In my former startup we were five co-founders, and some stupid decisions lagged for days, or even weeks, out of the impossibility of letting the person who is most qualified decide.

But it was worse for me, because I was the only woman, and the men in my team clearly tried to undermine me all the time by not trusting my judgement. So imagine your frustration and multiply it by a 100x. It's amazing how men in this industry hate women so much.

This is so destructive - people need to have reign to run with the items in their domain and job title. You need to put a stop to this and have people run with their specialty. I don't get all up in my cofounders stuff nor he and mine and it works for us. I trust him on what he needs to accomplish.

Make a meeting, explain the problem for you and moreover for the company : time lost = money lost.

And propose some improvement.

For example, the democracy : if a decision is not so important but everybody want to give his opinion, make a vote, the majority wins without the hierarchy : the CEO like the internship man has the same weight for those decision.

And the decisions like that have to be taken in 10 minutes max.

This is a classic frustration from inexperience. I felt as you did for many of my padawan years. Armchair managers want to have their say about matters that they had no experience with nor knowledge of. I loathed having to bring them to my level all the time. I was essentially opting out of the naturally occurring culture of collaboration. My attitude about the whole process corrupted my relationships with my coworkers.

What I learned was that getting work done <strong>is</strong> a priority, but not the <em>only</em> priority. Getting work done, of a quality that meets my own standards and at all <em>social costs</em> isn't going to help the organization. It will help YOU, through a sense of personal achievement, sense of progress, achieving deliverables, whatever.

Change your frame of mind or change companies.

If you and I worked together, and I sensed you were impatient with me in our work process, I'd tell you the story behind all of this and then give you the opportunity to accept the culture I'm creating or move on.

It's called delegation and roles. Learn it soon or kiss your company goodbye.

It is something based on the lack of experience. We had similar problems too, but when we gained experience - we stopped arguing about bs. Of course, it requires honest people as well.

Know what? Maybe your ideas do suck?

What you should do is put your time and money where your mouth is. Create a skunkworks, or hire someone out of your own $$$ to do the redesign. (or do it yourself!) - make an amazing mockup and show it to your partners in a meeting.

Win them to your side to take over that element of the business - don't sit and whine they won't listen to me.

If it still doesnt work - then you can kick back and collect a check and ride it to the wheels fall off.

Ya loafer.