Your list of requirements for success is about as useful as telling someone that you need to go to college to get a degree. Its actually pretty vapid. It overlooks the ability of overcoming adversity to achieve all those things.
Your overlooking all the tremendously difficult and gutsy things you have to make a business sucessful:
1. Quit a well paying job which affords your family food,shelter and clothes.
2. Work 14 hours a day on a service that people may not buy even though they have given you letters of intent that they will.
3. Partner and work with people (devs, designers, customers) who you've known for less than the guy who works at your favourite pizza place.
4. Work on something which at the end of the day might be useless because the whole industry could change. (Launching a new mp3 player on the same day as the ipod)
5. Cold call hundreds of potential customers of which 90% will slam the phone on you.
6. Work with no health insurance (if you dont get funding) to save money for your startup.
I dont think you could even think of attempting a "real" money making startup unless you have brass balls.
Your overlooking all the tremendously difficult and gutsy things you have to make a business sucessful: 1. Quit a well paying job which affords your family food,shelter and clothes. 2. Work 14 hours a day on a service that people may not buy even though they have given you letters of intent that they will. 3. Partner and work with people (devs, designers, customers) who you've known for less than the guy who works at your favourite pizza place. 4. Work on something which at the end of the day might be useless because the whole industry could change. (Launching a new mp3 player on the same day as the ipod) 5. Cold call hundreds of potential customers of which 90% will slam the phone on you. 6. Work with no health insurance (if you dont get funding) to save money for your startup.
I dont think you could even think of attempting a "real" money making startup unless you have brass balls.