I want to start a business content page, but I haven’t built a business myself. Is this idea worth pursuing?

I’m 23, and I’ve realised that I genuinely enjoy talking about businesses, understanding how they work, and asking founders questions. I’m also willing to put in the effort to learn, read, research and upskill myself.

But there’s one thing I’m confused about.

I haven’t built a business of my own, so I don’t feel qualified to give people business advice or act like a coach. I don’t want to pretend that I know everything when I’m still learning myself.

Instead, I want to start a business content page where I talk to founders and document how they actually built their businesses.

Think about it: there are already so many podcasts where people interview CEOs of large companies. I enjoy watching them, but I often come away feeling motivated rather than knowing what I should actually do to get started.

These founders have achieved incredible things, but some of their strategies were relevant to a different time. The market, technology, customer behaviour and opportunities have changed significantly. Someone trying to start a business in 2026 might be dealing with a very different reality.

What I want to understand is the actual zero-to-one journey.

I want to talk to founders who started relatively recently, perhaps four or five years ago, and have managed to build businesses generating several crores in revenue or even reach the million-dollar mark.

I want to ask them questions like:

  • How did you identify the problem you wanted to solve?
  • How did you validate your idea before investing money?
  • How much capital did you actually need to get started?
  • What did your first few customers look like, and how did you acquire them?
  • What mistakes cost you money, and what would you do differently if you were starting today?
  • If someone wanted to build a business in 2026, with limited money and no business background, where should they begin?

I’m particularly interested in the decisions, failures and practical steps that often get lost when we hear the polished success story.

I also feel that many people want to start something of their own but are afraid of taking the risk. They’re unsure whether to quit their jobs, how much money they need, whether their idea is good enough or whether they should even begin.

I’d like to create content that helps people understand these decisions through the experiences of people who have actually gone through them, instead of simply telling them what they should do.

I’m not claiming to be a business expert. My role would be to ask better questions, find interesting founders, research their businesses and make their experiences useful for people who are just starting out.

My questions for people here:

  1. Does this concept offer any real value, or would people see it as just another founder interview page?
  2. Would you watch short videos that break down the actual process of building a business, rather than long podcasts about successful people?
  3. What would make this kind of content genuinely useful to someone who wants to start a business but doesn’t know where to begin?
  4. Do you think not having built a business myself would make it difficult to build credibility, even if I’m interviewing people who have?

I’m not looking for motivational comments or people telling me to just follow my passion. I’d genuinely appreciate criticism, especially from people who have built businesses or tried creating content in this space.

I’m trying to figure out whether this is a worthwhile idea to pursue and, more importantly, what I might be missing.

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zomerbk•1 day ago•3

I’d watch if each short video focused on one early decision: how they found customer #1, what they spent, what failed, and what they knew at the time. Include founders whose businesses stalled, too, so the page doesn’t turn every outcome into a success story. You can build credibility as a careful interviewer by asking for specifics and making clear when something is one founder’s experience rather than general advice.

SeyedMarvan_RAG•1 day ago•2

if ur the one asking the questions ur not really giving advice... so u dont need to have built anything for it. some of the best interviewers never ran a company. id start with small local founders not big names. a cafe owner, a guy running a cleaning business, someone 1-2 years in. they say yes way more easily and their story is closer to what ur audience is actually dealing with

and ask the boring questions that most podcasts skip... what did they charge the first client, how did they find them, what did they almost quit over. thats the stuff people save and share

do 10 before u decide on the format, ull figure out what works pretty fast

ansh024•about 23 hours ago•2

Act like a student & curator of business content. Don't show up like a coach. Borrow other people's learnings & share with your audience without claiming you wrote them.

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Fine-Gas-8455•1 day ago•1

Love this idea! I definitely think there's a market for it. If you genuinely enjoy learning about businesses, I'd say go for it and keep at it. The more you research, speak to founders and understand how businesses actually work, the more you'll build your own knowledge and credibility along the way.

The School of Hard Knocks is a great example of how much people enjoy this kind of content. If you can go one step further and make the lessons genuinely actionable for people who want to start a business, I think that's where the real value is. You could even build a community around it further down the line. There's loads you could do with this if you get it right!

Just-Bandicoot745•1 day ago•1

The concept would be more useful to me if each interview showed evidence from that stage of the business: the first landing page, an early outreach message, what they charged, or what they changed after customers said no. Those details are often more helpful than a polished account of how it all worked out.

I’d also test a few short interviews before committing to a big production schedule. See which specific questions people ask you to follow up on—that could shape the next interviews.

k_rocker•1 day ago•1

To be fair, I also wouldn’t hire you if you had no experience.

Think of when you hire someone, you want to see they have a track record, your lack of one would probably make this a bad career choice just now. Business coaches are usually in the 40’s and older with significant experience behind them - not only building but consultation and often as accountants as well.

Go learn, but you’ll find it hard to sell yourself as a coach.

jamiechadburn03•1 day ago•1

Document your journey to starting a business

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