Re: [e-commerce Gaming/Service Project] Need partner/s, webdesigner, marketing...
just build a wordpress site with woocommerce plugin and use coinpayments as payment service then put a link to main page for referral marketing. All you need is solved without coding and anybody involving 
Sad thing about this is that he will not have a lot of flexibility around design and future features he want's to include, and he will end up with coding them sooner or later.