Why do you want to start your own business? How would you define the success of your business (lots of money, lots of free time, individual growth, being able t

Why do you want to start your own business? How would you define the success of your business (lots of money, lots of free time, individual growth, being able to do something you love despite financial hardship, etc)? If you're strapped for cash my advice for the near future, 1-2 years, is to get a job/freelancing gig with a steady income. This gives you the resources to peruse your business dreams on your spare time without having to constantly experience poverty. Because it takes months to launch a business and even longer before it becomes profitable. As for the business you want to start, research (including business prototyping, e.g. testing business ideas in real-life but on a small scale) the hell out of the industry/niche you're getting into and base your business ideas on hard data; only execute on the best idea and do so furiously. No one has THE formula for finding great business ideas but you will need a structured approach for evaluating your ideas, preferably so that you can be reasonably sure (at the very least more accurate than a coin flip) that it will be successful per your wants (x income per year? Six months vacation per year? Millionaire within x years?). Sometimes the best you can do is to realize that a certain idea should be abandoned (e.g. market too crowded, profits too small).