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You spent your career building someone else's business. Now it's time to build your own. More than 6 out of 10 people dream about starting their own business, but never do. The ones that do start their own business report the lack of structure and not knowing what to do next as the biggest challenges to their success. Future State Found gives you the end-to-end system for the whole transition: deciding what to build, launching it, operating it, and optimizing it, with the support you need throughout to execute successfully. Career skills are not founder skills. The habits that made you valuable as an employee are the same habits that stall a new business. The reason for failure is rarely a bad idea. It's an unstructured transition, a year of courses and pivots with no system, no sequence, and no revenue. We believe being a founder can be learned. Pick the business that fits you and how you actually execute, build it in a deliberate sequence, and surround it with support that lasts. How we help: • The Starter Kit: the book, a companion workbook, an intro training series, and templates to help you explore the transition. • The Prevail Launch Program: 90 days of structured learning and building, followed by nine months of support with ongoing programming, meetings, and structure. • Coaching and Execution Partnership engagements What We're Not: Career coaches helping you find a better job, or a get-rich course. We never promise passive income, and we never tell anyone to quit recklessly. Every transition is planned, bridged, and paced to your real situation. Founded by Mark R Cooley, who made this exact transition after a 2024 layoff from a senior corporate role. Mark brings roughly 30 years across banking, startups, consulting, and executive leadership, has been a venture-backed founder, and is the author of The Founder Revolution. Learn more about our Prevail Launch Program at futurestatefound.com