Your co-workers gossip. Your cubicle is cramped. Your ideas are ignored. Your paycheck is a paycheck. You want to be your own boss.
People dream about walking away from the corporate world and starting or buying a business.
It's done all the time, but not easily and not always successfully. A budding entrepreneur can dodge some of the pitfalls of going into business by choosing the right one and doing the homework, Unze said. Most of the more successful businesses we see are service businesses. Service businesses on national lists of best businesses to start this year include messenger, desktop publishing, videography, computer consulting and bookkeeping. More risky than service businesses are retail stores and restaurants.