Jane_Doe - 4:57 pm on Mar 29, 2007 (gmt 0)

I've had a lot of friends try it and never get very far. For many this was because they didn't want to invest any time in making sites without a guarantee of making any money. They were not risk takers. In the final anaylsis many took salaried or hourly wage jobs making much less than what I think they could have made in making web sites, especially when you add in their commute hours.

Others failed because they got bored. They really needed jobs where they worked with people more. And some just simply didn't have the technical aptitude needed to grasp everything you need to know like setting up a domain, finding a host, understanding the search algorithms, etc.

So I guess based in part on what I've learned doesn't work with my friends, I'd say to be successful you have to be willing to work hard with no absolute guarantee of getting paid, be able to work by yourself, and have a technical aptitude.

[edited by: Jane_Doe at 5:20 pm (utc) on Mar. 29, 2007]