&#62; This is good advice and a good indicator of why starting your own startup is the only sure fire way of making off like a founder.<p>'Sure fire' and 'startups' do not go together.<p>As a counter example, there are plenty of early Microsoft and Google people who were probably much better off with their options at those companies than doing their own thing.  Sure, they're outliers, but lots of things about startups in general are kind of outliers...