My advice to you is as follows. Make the decision now, at this stage in your life/career, whether you want to be a developer or not - and stick to the plan tha

My advice to you is as follows. Make the decision now, at this stage in your life/career, whether you want to be a developer or not - and stick to the plan that follows. If you do, then you need to work hard to obtain the level of proficiency needed to cut it in startup world (the "it takes 1000 hours to become a master' quote comes to mind here). I'm not sure if that is the 'going back to school' aspect you are considering but there a numerous ways to learn to be a good developer. It also means that most of your business school teaching - while still useful - will go unused as a dev. I'm not sure how much debt you have from school but is it worth wasting that education at this point? Or decide that you don't want to be a developer and stop trying to be one. If you move to SF/Silicon Valley you won't hack it trying to be a "part-dev/part-business-{blah}". If you are not sure what you want to do then I'd suggest coming out here and working for a funded startup or BigCo to get some stable salary and also build up your contact network (business or marketing out here requires a strong contact network). If you want to start another startup you will need a technical co-founder and so this also gives you time to meet such folks. Hope this is useful.