I think I'm a perfect fit here ! In my very early 30s, with a family and one kid, and yes, unfortunately my startup kind of failed. Or even worse, never really

I think I'm a perfect fit here ! In my very early 30s, with a family and one kid, and yes, unfortunately my startup kind of failed. Or even worse, never really started. I used to work in IT for trading, on the support / analysis part and last year decided to launch a startup to build a product with a friend of mine (same background). We did quit our jobs, worked hard on the product and yet... we never finished it. Too much distracted (we started developping several products at once), too much basic errors (leaving jobs too soon), not enough dev experience etc, long story. To answer your question - you get back to normal job. I had 0 problems to find a job thanks to the reputation / experience I have acquired before. Also people do care, but in a positive way - yes you failed, but at least you have tried ! I frankly don't know any smart, hard working guy in the corporate jobs that isn't dreaming about launching his own stuff. It's just that most are too affraid to fail and / or give up the easy life for some months or years. I was a bit surprised too by this positive attitude, especially that I'm living in France where the culture of failure is not exactly the same as it seems to be in the US. So overall, my only regret is to not trying earlier. And I will certainly try again, no matter if I'm in the 30s or 40s or whatever !