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I think your analogy with restaurants is flawed. There's a reason a lot of newly started restaurants fail.

You most definitely need some form of experience from the restaurant business to succeed as a restaurant owner, unless you are really lucky. Your analogy make it seem as being a chef is the only job that exist in the restaurant business.

Sure, you can succeed without experience, but your chances to do so increases dramatically with experience.

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I realized after the fact that I didn't elaborate on my meaning here, but it seems like you picked up on it.

What I meant was: You should have experience with at least one and preferably several of the important parts of running an ISP before you start one. NOC experience is one of the things that you could already have experience with, but isn't the only one.

> Your analogy make it seem as being a chef is the only job that exist in the restaurant business.

This actually makes my point better than I did. Being a [chef/network technician] isn't the only job that exists in a [restaraunt/wisp].

I was also referring to the role of restaurant general manager and owner (Sometimes same person, sometimes not), not just chef.

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