first off dont call me son, grandad.
i did not say you do not need experience, i did not say i do not value experience, what i said was its not everything. for example a person that has grown for 20 years could have been getting the same things wrong for 20 years so those 20 years he call experience is what i would call a waste.
let me tell you the other factors that you need to grow: money, skill, the balls to actually do it, time, drive, a brain, and most of all a willingness to learn, i could carry on............
i have no problem with you and i am not saying you dont know what your doing i am just saying if a guy asks the question why can no one give him a straight answer (not you personally i mean in general)
if the guy has got a brain he will know this is no easy task and if he has not then he wont get far LET HIM MAKE HIS OWN DECISION all i am saying is answer his question not give him a lecture about how hard it is or police etc.