I'm not entirely sure why you think I'm completely in the dark about how to start and run a business. I've been using cloud computing companies since before Amazon Web Services existed. I've been a programmer for ten years and have a decent knowledge of the sector from a practical and theoretical point of view. I've talked to people and know there is a market out there for my idea but that means nothing in a business plan. I need to have reliable external sources to convey the growth in the market segment I am aiming for. You don't even know what my business idea is and yet you have already written me off. I'm not entirely sure why you think I'm so ignorant. All I'm doing is following the advice on numerous business plan writing websites and books that you need to do market research. Since I'm disabled I can't go and canvas people in the street (and anyway why would you canvas people in the street for a cloud computing idea? Most people wouldn't know what cloud computing even was). I've built a landing page for my business to funnel people to sign up for a newsletter which will be one form of validating the business idea. But that doesn't mean I can't do other market research.
Until you set up and run a business you are in the dark about setting up and running a business.
Its easy as an employee - you get time off, you get sick pay, your boss has limits on what they can do to you.
Your own business - you can end up working long hours for no money - the admin, the training, the chasing up people.... the boss can be an asshole, you can work late and still have to get up early....
And even longer hours for the money you do get. Not uncommon for a new business owner to work a 7 day week 360 plus days of the year.
Learn what you can by reading and viewing. Then jump in.
Sink or swim - literally.
This is either my 6th or 7th business depends how people are counting. Some have been successful, one failed badly.
In over 20 years of having businesses I'm still finding stuff that I didn't know. Usually by slamming into it at full speed but sometimes picking up stuff from others experiences.
In your case as canvassing people in the street won't work, perhaps canvas people who you would think of as potential customers. Talking to them - a phone or headset works, even a keyboard if using a textphone.
Amongst other things you will need to identify who your customers are going to be to be able to market your services to them so its useful stuff anyway.
Currently its both the worst and best times to set up in business. If you can handle it during virus, recession and brexit then you will know you can handle anything. And the current changes and economic impacts will open up opportunities that would not have been as easy to find a year ago.
Disabled can do a lot when our disabilities get taken out of the picture. You aren't a disabled person with a cloud computing idea, you are a business person with a cloud computing idea. Just some ways we work may be slightly different.
