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In reply to the discussion: Does anyone here remember those cool little "health food" stores in the seventies? [View all]Blue_true
(31,261 posts)You don't have to read them, hopefully others will and will find value in them. Believe me, you will be a lot more stressed out if you find yourself in your late 50s or 60s broke because of a business failure, that is an experience that I would warn anyone against having to go through - that doesn't say that you should not try to live a dream, just have a set amount of money that you are willing to lose and if you hit that, have yourself in a position to shut the doors immediately. Hopefully, if you get there, you will be among the percentage of first time business owners that succeed out of the gate.
Honestly, when I read the replies to you, I was stunned by the number of people that were saying "go for it". The only thing that I will guess is not a single one of those people have ever owned a business. I felt a need to counter that wrong-headed view. You don't have to like the real life warnings that I gave you, hopefully, someone else that is contemplating starting a business will read them and find the value in them that my experience say is there.