this is really though provoking thread . its weired that me too think about starting about starting business pretty much each and every time i drink alcohol with my relatives and freind . i think nothing is stopping  us to start business if you think in macro way because i mean bank and loan giving company are dying to give loan to us to do something like to buy car buy house start new business  the only think that is stopping us from doing small or big business is courage,lack of risk taking behaviour, fear of being unsuccessful  ,lack of knowledge about business. i mean family man or women can't risk of being failure in anything because they have to pay the price of being bankcrupt if business fail but ya loan giving bank and company are dying to give loan to do business , to buy house to people its just individual ability to take risk is stopping i think which is normal i guess. for some reason indian are really good in doing business i have meet few indian who are really good in brain about doing business like buying stuff from toronto in cheap and selling in small country and they have huge huge amount of connection  which we don't have yet or may be we will never have .