I’ve always wanted to start a business, but I can’t help but question if I’d ever be courageous enough to do so, despite the enormous sense of commitment that comes with it. The other day, I watched a highly inspirational video by a young billionaire, Iman Gadzhi (Iman Gadzhi, 2025), urging young adults to seize entrepreneurial opportunities, as he believes that 2025 may be the last year when so many GenAI-driven possibilities.
Iman elaborated that in the modern era, AI not only eliminates the need to hire employees, but it also reduces the need to learn new soft or hard skills through self-study or degrees. Consequently, this further reduces the need to build internal capabilities, which may help avoid the often high start-up expenses. With the rise and integration of AI into various global industries, AI agents have enabled the delivery of highly value-generating services that were previously performed by human employees (EuroNews, 2024). Many of these can serve as replacements for the start-up team that a young entrepreneur may hire.
How could this look like in practice?
Common beginning stages of establishing a successful business idea include performing Market research. Zach Cohen and Seema Amble argue that AI is on the verge of completely transforming traditional market research practices, claiming that AI tools can produce faster, smarter, and cheaper results than a single human, providing insight into the latest trends, customer demographics, and interesting directions for business development (Amble, 2025).
Furthermore, AI agents facilitate Business Plan development, generate financial forecasts, suggest creative pitches, draft business canvases, and identify strategic growth prospects (Investopedia, 2025). For digital products or prototypes, AI accelerates rapid prototyping. Modern AI constructs comprehensive marketing strategies, supports brand development (such as logo or vision creation), launches websites, drives targeted promotional campaigns, and analyzes social media outreach, collectively boosting sales and building a competitive edge (Shopify, 2025).
Finally, bookkeeping, expense tracking, and budgeting can all be performed with the support of AI tools, making it not only accurate but also highly predictive and empirical, with additional features that can help choose a scaling/growth strategy that is most suitable for the business (BotKeeper, 2025).
However, it is necessary to recognize that, first and foremost, several essential steps in company growth, such as decision making, concept validation, and customer service, continue to rely on human resources. Second, AI does not replace all aspects of a job, and while it can help during the start-up period, adding people would be a natural next step for scaling and developing the business, since it is never a one-man show.
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Your blog post was very interesting to read. I agree that AI has definitely lowered many of the tradtional barriers when aiming to start an own business. I think that this development makes entrepreneurship so much more accessible in various industries. However, I am still thinking about your point that AI is not able to make decisions right now. Do you think that will stay the same in the future, as well? For example, I could imagine training an AI that thinks the same ways as the actual founder.
It will be fascinating to see how the next generation of entrepreneurs handle the balance of using AI instead of employees on the one hand, but still take meaningful decisions on their own. I do believe that almost every industry will face this development to a certain point. Great post!
This was interesting to read, and I do agree with what you mentioned. I feel like now is definitely the right time to dive into these tools and make the most out of them. They open up a lot of opportunities, and using them well could really give you a competitive advantage.
That said, I’d still be cautious, especially when it comes to market research. For a start-up with limited resources, the speed and broad insights AI can offer are great, but I wouldn’t rely on them blindly. It’s tempting to base your direction entirely on what these tools suggest, but I don’t think that that is the best move. Most AI tools still tend to hallucinate or give outdated info, and they’re not always transparent about where their insights come from or what they’re based on. That makes it hard to fully trust the output, especially when you’re making big decisions.
Also, they often lack a clear and critical rationale behind their suggestions. You don’t always get a proper explanation of why something is recommended, which makes it tricky to evaluate whether it actually fits your context or goals.
That said, for standard tasks like logo creation, website building, or even drafting basic business plans, they’re indeed genuinely impressive and really useful.
I’m curious though, since you mentioned that you are ambitious about starting your own business, what kind of industry are you thinking about? And based on what you wrote, which AI tools or techniques do you actually plan to use to get things moving?