First of all, your own hobbies or previous professions often determine which kind of business you’ll typically want to start. For example, you if worked as a programmer, graphic designer, or lawyer and decide to stay on the same career track, the move to self-employment is usually motivated by the promise of increased flexibility and freedom, but the job itself remains very similar. It might be, however, that you want to have a change and start something completely new and different. In that case, knowing how to identify a good idea is the right place to start.
A good idea is only really revealed the more you plan it out - starting a business takes a lot of work in the first steps, during which, however, it often already becomes clear which difficulties you’ll have to face, but we will go into this again below. In the following paragraphs, we will first list seven areas with concrete small business ideas that are suitable for starting up your own business.