You may have had a nonbusiness interest that you made into a business. You may have a business that spun off a curiosity and thus a second career in an associated area. You may have 2 or more completely different simultaneous businesses, aka multipreneurship. I once met a particularly bright entrepreneur with 5! Ahem, is that called pentapreneurship?

You may have pent up in you the desire to launch a new endeavor.

You may be auditioning or apprenticing or learning about business that you plan to open. I meet lawyers who are standup comics. I meet CPAs who are Saturday night chefs who cater your dinner party from your own kitchen, clean up, and disappear.

They have a personal need to expand beyond their day job. You may too.

That leads us to LinkedIn. It’s a vast repository of talent, waiting to be tapped. Research the movers and shakers in the field you are aiming at and seek connections to them as a means of meeting them. Every learned entrepreneur is pleased to offer advice and/or mentor a more junior member, from their greater experience level. So ask. Refer. Approach. Post a request, question, need for a referral.

If your connection group is worthwhile, ask in a group message for them to help you. If not, ask them one at a time. Just ask.