Starting a business - is it worth the risk?

Marcon · 16 June at 7:11PM

llcooljayne1 said:

Hi all, thank you for all the comments.

firstly the reason for the radio silence is that I’ve actually been on a weeks taster course for dog grooming to see how I find it before venturing into a business myself. I had the best week and am now going to continue to gain my level 3 qualification.

For whoever thinks I am just someone who has a dream to do something but has no idea and probably won’t, I look forward to proving you wrong.

The feedback and advice regarding the coffee shop side of the business made a lot of sense and I have decided to just start with the grooming and maybe consider that part in the future.

You don't think it might have been relevant to include more info in your opening post? You are asking people to assess the risk level based on what you say - and there was nothing in that post to suggest you'd done anything towards achieving the dream (and yes, of course I hope it works out, especially when you are clearly still traumatised by being abruptly sacked from your last job a few months ago).

With respect, you are still completely missing the point that the customers aren't going to come rushing to your door based on the fact you've done a taster course. Shelling out a significant amount of money to get your dog groomed needs to give value for money - which means experience as well as a bit of paper saying you've done a course.

Don't forget that the taster course is also an advertisement for the course providers...