I've seen coffee shops do well on the other side of the street of a Starbucks. Just because there are folk in the biz, they seem to do fine.
Bob
Hey there guys.
Came here for a piece of advice for a starter here. So I've been a person who wanted to start his own business for, I'd say, last 5-7 years. Every now and then I will come up with a certain idea (which seems to be awesome at start) but then when I'm getting more into it, I either realize that I will need a big investment (which I don't have) or the market has competitors with exactly same ideas, but they are operating already, and no new ideas of how I can enhance product/service itself to be better then competitors. I would really love to get some advice from people who started their own business from the bottom with little or no investment at all, and actually tips of how you can do that, because besides additional income I'm looking just to have some sort of a project made and started by myself and see it growing - admiring it. At some point i realize that the best way would probably be identifying issue/problem, and provide solution to it by offering services/products to customer, thus making money, but again the major block I face every time is the fact that there are already operating competitors in that niche, and I just have a feeling that there is no point in entering because "why would customer choose your new, untested service/product instead of a trusted one".
Any advice would be appreciated.

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