[jamesjyu]

I did it. I took a "secure" job for two years after graduate school, then decided to jump into a startup as a first employee. The way I decided which company was that I built a script that would crawl the news for companies closing series A, and then chose from that pool (since those would be arguably less risky).

After 3 years as a startup employee (and learning everything about both technical and business side of things), I'm founding a company now.