[smileysteve]

> I wanted to run my own business (tech)

A key question to ask is why you want to run your own business? For the freedom? For the money? For the challenge? Which of these are you not getting at your position and how can you get it?

> What is it that I'm missing and would help?

Do you have a tech idea that you are passionate about? Can you survey 30 businesses that want it? Do you have enough savings to not have a client for several months?

Have you attended any startup weekends or incubator lectures?

[pylot]

I want to run my own business for several reasons * The challenge of building a business from ground up. * Working for something that is my own. * The idea that I can be financially free if I'm successful (but this is secondary)

I don't think I'm getting any of those from my jobs so far.

With regards to ideas that I've had that I'm passionate about definitely. Your second question is more of a problem in that I'm not quite sure how to gauge and maybe this is something that I should work on. I do have savings for a couple of months.

I've worked at several startups and been to hackathons, lectures, pitches etc.