So you're software guy and you can build things. You even have an idea of what to build. The "business/money" part of things is easy. If you get big enough, yo

So you're software guy and you can build things. You even have an idea of what to build. The "business/money" part of things is easy. If you get big enough, you can hire an accountant to do most of that for you. The "networking" thing is pretty easy too: you can hire salespeople for that. What you need is someone who knows this industry from a strategic standpoint: who are your competitors, who are your customers, and how do you sell to them? What do they even want? What value does your product give them over a more generic data warehousing solution? I can tell you right now that your idea is neither novel nor particularly valuable (if your customers are big multinational companies, it's just a little custom reporting code on top of their enterprise data warehousing platform). Until you turn it into a product that serves some customer's needs, it will remain without value. But what you need is someone who understands the market enough to be able to tell you these things. I would say your best option would be to find someone in the industry and say "Hey, I have a business idea I'd like to bounce off of you". Don't worry about people stealing your idea -- if it's worth doing, someone has probably already done it. That doesn't mean there's not an opportunity though, and you just need to find someone qualified to judge that.