[GuiA]

Great post, thanks for taking the time to write it.

I took a similar route– quit my PhD program to join a startup at which I had interned the summer prior– and slowly find myself missing many aspects of grad school.

Will probably end back there at some point– if only there was a magical place with the best parts of grad school and the best parts of the startup world...

[robryan]

That is the premise of research arms in industry, such as Microsoft research? No idea whether they end up being co opted by business pressures or not?