Deciding what sort of business is best for you

Hi All,



A bit of a general survey thread here; did you have (are you still) having difficulty in deciding what sort of business you should start?



I'm trying to understand how people arrive at their business idea as part of some wider work I'm doing into startup/work from home businesses and would appreciate any feedback you might have as to the process you went through - or are going through now.



A couple of starter questions to get you thinking:

• Did you start by thinking about what skills you already had then trying to find a way to monetize those skills by turning them into a business? Or, did you look around on the web to see what others were doing then think that you would follow suit?


• How much planning did you do before setting off on your business journey?


• What sort of resources did you use to help make your decisions? For example, did you just use the Web, attend local small business seminars/training, speak with your bank etc.


• Did you start a business then realize you were unsuited to it and change?


• What was your main stumbling block (if you had one) that stopped you getting going at the start?


• Looking back, what was the one

thing you would have done differently?



I'd be really interested in your thoughts (as would many others, I'm sure) and appreciate any time you might have to feed back.



Regards,



Paul