My anecdote was about finding what's important to you and making a change to that specifically. For me it was a bigger focus on quality of life and quality of p

My anecdote was about finding what's important to you and making a change to that specifically. For me it was a bigger focus on quality of life and quality of product, not compensation. Sounds like compensation is more important for you so my path would not be your path. As to the hard bits - I'll be covering that in response to another commentor who asked how I got started. Agreed on accounting & legal - though this is easier now than ever with services like Bench.co - which I set up on day 1 right after spinning up the business entity & bank account.