[japhyr]

"Organizations are designed to do what they did yesterday. In order for schools to attract and retain highly-skilled professionals they need to begin to offering more flexible work schedules/careers for people like you."

Yes. If I am actually skilled enough to make a successful startup, I might look at trying to make a half-time teaching position work. That would be just to stay in teaching, not for any salary needs.

"And while startups can offer great financial rewards, just think of yourself as an angel investor mentoring hundreds of startups each year! Even ycombinator can't match that output!"

An angel investor who will never see any financial return on my investment.

[Kevinjmireles]

Having done the startup thing and lost my shirt in the process - you can read my Lessons from the Land of Hard Knocks - http://wp.me/1pqm - realize there are no guarantees of an ROI in monetary terms. However, as a teacher you have a much higher probability of actually making a difference and touching peoples lives than getting excellent an excellent Karmic ROI.

That said, I'm still working toward my entrepreneurial goals, just a little wiser and in a little more measured fashion - and this time I'm focused on working on something that I really care about whether I make a dollar on it or not.