[oliwarner]

> There is no such thing as "safe" entrepreneurship

Of course there is!

It's safe if you can afford to take no wage, invest lots of money, even more time into something that might not work.

It's only unsafe if you can't afford to lose the business and everything you put into it. If it would mean you and your dependents not eating, becoming homeless. Even mild financial pressure is more than some relationships can take.

The danger of following others into entrepreneurship is you see the successes of the very lucky and the failures of the people who could afford it, who tried and tried and tried again. You rarely see the people utterly destroyed by their mistakes and poor luck.

Your situation matters. You aren't the people you've seen before.