Are You Ready for a Startup?

"If my wife was here, she would give you a hug," he said.

Mike (not his real name) is a corporate executive who took the leap to join a startup. After working there for two years, he left. It wasn't his decision. It was the investor's decision.

Mike did talk to me just before he joined the startup. Back then, when he briefed me on the company, we talked a…