Starting a business of your own is a major decision involving many factors, including how much you’ll need to live on until you start making a profit, how much profit you must make to maintain your standard of living, what support (financial and emotional) you can count on from your family in the meantime, and the local market for your skills. I can’t go into all those factors here (you can read about them in The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Starting Your Own Business), but I will look at the specific things you need to know to run your own grant-writing business.