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Making the leap

Quit smart: runway, timing, and family buy-in.

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If the startup fails, how do I explain the gap to future employers? Stop calling it a gap, it's a founder role, and you frame it exactly like any other job: what you built, what you learned, what you owned end-to-en... Beginner 2 resources → I'm on an H-1B or work visa abroad. How do I make the leap back to India to start up? You cannot found and actively run a company on an H-1B, so stop trying to do it quietly on the side and make a real decision: either move back to I... Advanced 3 resources → How do I make the leap from a well-paid MNC or FAANG job when the salary itself is the trap? The golden-handcuffs problem is real: the higher your package, the more your lifestyle and your fear scale with it, so the fix is to cut your burn ... Advanced 3 resources → I'm 40+ with kids and a mortgage. Is it too late, or too irresponsible, to make the leap now? It is neither: the average successful founder is closer to 40 than 25, and your decade of domain depth, network, and savings is exactly the runway ... Intermediate 3 resources →
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