[cweagans]

Being a founder or ex-founder is an implementation detail, not a selling point of its own.

Test your assumption: change your resume to not imply that you were working for yourself, but for a company (which I assume is true -- you don't need to specify that you _owned_ the company). Change your title to VP, Engineering or something like that. If you get more bites that way, there might be some evidence to suggest that's the problem.

Otherwise, it's likely that your resume just needs work. There is lots of advice out there, but my $0.02: your resume is an ad and the CTA is scheduling an interview. You've got about 6 seconds to make a good enough impression to get them to actually schedule an interview, so don't fill an entire page with super dense text or things that would be better saved for an interview when you can discuss them at length.

Also: as someone who has frequently been on the other side of the table from ex-founders applying for a job, my view is that they're either really amazing hires or huge liabilities. Not a lot of in-between. Being a founder is neither inherently a virtue nor a vice -- it's what you make of that experience and bring to the table at a new company that's important.