Bhubaneswar, Oct. 23 -- For many, leaving a cushy Rs 48 lakh-per-annum job in the US might sound unthinkable. But for one Indian techie, the dream of entrepreneurship was worth the risk. He quit his high-paying remote job to start a D2C (direct-to-consumer) brand in India, a journey that brought both profits and plenty of hard-earned lessons.

In a Reddit post titled 'Skip India,' the entrepreneur shared the realities of building a business from scratch in India. Despite scaling his D2C venture to over Rs 2 crore in annual revenue while remaining profitable, he described the experience as 'a constant struggle.'

"Everyone wants a piece of commission from you to run something or offer something," he wrote, adding that delayed corporate pay...