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by biddit 872 days ago
Sibling comments both answered the greenfield thing as I would have :)

As for first business, I built a very small network over 7 years working in house at an advertising agency (which did a lot of digital work) and some startups. While I was just an IC developer, because I could communicate with non-technical people well, I became the first point of contact for a lot of decision makers over time.

If you want to do solo technical consulting start making friends with non-technical people who are in leadership roles. It takes time but it does snowball.