[donnanorton]

When my dad was starting his first business, back about 30 years ago, the business environment was wildly different than today.

There was far less venture capital floating around, things like “crowdfunding” were non-existent, websites were incipient, social media wasn’t a thing, businesses nearly always had a “brick and mortar” store presence etc.

Today, your options for starting a business are endless...

[yosito]

Limitless options make it a bit harder to know what the good options are. I'd prefer not to just jump in with zero direction. That seems like asking for failure.