More to the point, starting a business will leave you very little time (read: no time) to do any esoteric research [1]. Starting a business consumes -all- your

More to the point, starting a business will leave you very little time (read: no time) to do any esoteric research [1]. Starting a business consumes -all- your time. It's usually long hours for little pay [1]. [1] for the first 10 years or so anyway. If you can use that time to build a passive-income product, or get big enough so effectively employees are doing your work, then you'll have lots of free time to work on whatever you like. But it's a long play.