Hello,
I'm going to set up my own VPN on some cloud hosting provider, and I'm toying with the idea of turning it into a small business.
Is there anything I need to know beforehand? Is it really that easy, or are there legal issues I need to handle?
Cheers
EDIT:
I should note that I know this is an extremely saturated market - I'm not aiming to build a hyper successful business, but moreso to manage a small public VPN as an ideological side-project. Anything above breaking even I'd consider a bonus.
My battle plan for assessing whether or not I would pursued this would be the following:
1. Who is my target market?
2. How big is that market?
3. How will you reach that market?
4. How can you test whether or not you can reach that market before getting fully invested?
5. Test out several ways to reach your market. Try changing the niche and marketing plan until you can find some positive signals.
6. Analyze the data and make an educated guess whether this is worth your time or if you would enjoy doing something else more.
As far as legal issues, I don’t have any good advice but talk to a lawyer. Look at some terms of use of existing VPNs. Find out where you are liable and try to mitigate your risks the best you can.
If you ever want to brainstorm some ideas hit me up at my email on my profile.