You have numerous options in this situation. Some could say that a feasible strategy might be to put your startup in hibernation mode. However, by doing that y

You have numerous options in this situation. Some could say that a feasible strategy might be to put your startup in hibernation mode. However, by doing that you might lose the customers that you just recently got. Sales is also a long term relationship. What this means is that if you put your startup to sleep, when it wakes up, your relationship from your customers at that point might have to start from the beginning. Now let's say, you didn't close your startup and you decided to take your friends offer. So that would mean your startup would not go into hibernation mode and you get to maintain your current relationship with existing customers. And you can continue prospecting for customers and do the whole sales cycle thing. But, how do you get to work a full time job, and not put your startup into hibernation? I think one of the things you can do is to delegate/outsource/hire someone to manage/develop the existing startup for you. Essentially, you don't even have to think about your startup, you just have to pay for it. Although it is true that hiring someone to run your startup is a different issue. Let me know what you think