While some might not have the business acumen to start their own company, they can still fulfill their dream by owning a business by being an investor on the sideline.  To do this, you don’t need millions of dollars to be an angel investor or a venture capitalist.  You can start out small by being an individual investor in the stock market.  People tend to forget that by buying shares of a company, you do in essence own a bit of the company. For some strange reason, people don’t often see it this way.

Realistically, how many people do you know that buy a business and then sell their business a few days or months later?  I would imagine not many.  Therefore, why do people do the same thing on the stock market instead of channeling their efforts into buying long term stocks in the first place?  Even though you might have picked some stock winners, it might not be evident until years down the line.  Sometimes the share price of a perfectly run company can lag until investors figure out that hidden gems.

So you can become a business owner in a sense by being a shareholder of a company.  The best part of it is that you just need to do proper research and figure out the right companies to buy at a good price.   For some, this is an even better scenario because there are no hassles associated with running an actual business.