off-topic Can you start a successful business with no experience?

[Ashake]

Founding an enterprise becomes challenging when you lack primary business experience. Successful entrepreneurs demonstrate that you do not need huge work experience to achieve business success. Building a successful business from zero requires dedication and continuous learning as well as constant perseverance. Success requires experience-seeking, mentor, along with calculated risk-taking behavior and a willingness to learn.

 

[NatureFreak]

As long as the desire to learn and always adapt us there, there should be no problem starting a business even without prior knowledge.
Moreover, no one is born with the experience, we learn as we progress.

 

[Reelz]

Experience is not a required condition for starting a successful business because I witnessed multiple examples in my lifetime. But I'm not totally discrediting the fact the we need experience to start a business. My entrepreneurial journey began three years back and proved to be an unpredictable experience. Through the highs and lows I gained substantial knowledge about running a business.

 

[1stop]

Starting a new business requires no background but turning that business into success remains so difficult. Without any relevant experience, you remain unprepared to handle the complex challenges that business demands. Your lack of experience will lead to expensive mistakes and hinder your ability to match or compete with the existing companies.

 

[Harsh World]

Everybody, generally speaking, believes that high skill and a lot of experience is what is required to build a business.

However, they're wrong. They are the business, even with what little skills they may have.

Everybody can mow a lawn. Most everyone can get a $200 loan for a mower ("for personal lawn care" and not for a business if seeking funds).

It only takes that 1 customer to pay the mower off, even if you have to push it an hour to get there, 4 hours on one lawn, and an hour back.

Then, perhaps a neighboring homeowner sees that they could use the help, so you have 2 days a week booked. At 5-7 days (should be 7 if you want to make something greater of it), you should be able to prove yourself for a cheap truck, used trailer, and riding mower to fit those previous 7 days into 2 after incorporating and paying taxes for a year. Now, you fill up the open 5 days, and expand with a second mower and employee to hit the same neighborhood twice in the same day.

They are baby steps, and while it feels like 1 step forward and 2 steps back at times, you will eventually hit the mile mark.

Mowing lawns might not be your thing, but you can get a good DSLR for below $50. Learn it. Then contact models to see if they'd be willing to do tfp (time for prints) sessions where you agree to photograph them, gaining experience, and they get photos for free while you build a portfolio. A strong photography portfolio will take you from free sessions to $75 sessions to even $4000 sessions (renting gear until the business can afford it).

There are so many things that people dismiss as a business because they can't understand that there is always a skill needed somewhere. It's only up to them finding the square hole for them to begin.

Over 15 years, I've witnessed my brother-in-law picking brush for 6 days a week for up to 10 hours a day. Then, he got enough for a truck to take someone with him to collect twice as fast to split more money. He then used the truck to recycle other people's junk. Over the years, he went from 1 truck to 3-5 with trailers recycling materials from all over the area. And now? He owns two homes (and personal vehicles).

 

[Niyi Brixx]

If you want to succeed in business without experience, you would need to have a highly experienced team that is also passionate. It costs more to do a business that you are not experienced in. But it is achievable. But you have to learn from the team quickly else you might be exploited.

 

[Lord Severus]

I think businesses need a certain amount of experience. But that experience need not come from the founders alone. it can come from workers, fund raising agents or even customers through their feedback.

Even if an inexperienced entrepreneur is building up a business, they hire employees with experience so that they don't have to enter the market bling and oblivious to the consumer arena.