For 16 year in corporate I've been tackling with an exit.
Coming from a family where there is no business knowledge I went the normal route of thoughts.
I need alot of capital and money to start something big > actually it's the best time to build something small and to own it.
I will need to take care of employees, investors, pitch different decks > start small, solopreneurship nowadays is real and works like a charm.
I need alot of diplomas and to study business and entrepreneurship > you actually don't need a diploma, you don't need a university, things are alot easier.
As a solopreneur you need a couple of things.
The theory and the knowledge behind it is easy.
you need a way people discover you that can be social media, word of mouth, recommendations paid ads once they discovered you they need to get to know you you can do that through content, if you create content for the right people you can also gain their trust gotta have a traffic engine to send these people somewhere once you gained their trust, you can have organic content sending them to something you sell. with paid asd you can target them straight but you will need to know exactly with who you're talking you need a way to get paid that can be thrivecart, stripe, stanstore, gumroad, there are a bunch of other more platforms that help you with that.
That's it, if you have all 4, then basically you can automate 2>3>4 and your focus will be just 1.
The more you grow the bigger the traffic gets that you will send to your product the more money you will make based on conversion rate and other signs.
We now have Ai and most of the tools, processes can be automated, so you might not need a team for a bunch of things, you could do it with Ai.
I'm not going to tap on fear and try and trigger you to get you to buy something, I will only say, it became alot easier to be a solopreneur, to own something, to make an exit with that from corporate and to create your own freedom.
Based on all the tools we have and based on the fact that you don't need any investment to start.
Most tools are free for the start and you can use them like that.
It all can start by choosing a platform, choosing a format (audio, video, text) and posting.