I also suggest that you obtain, and maintain, your license for a few years before you "go it alone." The best deal is if you can find someone who needs a "qualified employee" to operate.
Why? Because everyone "knows" that most new business fail, so when the time does come to "go it alone," the age of your licence will do two things:
- it will fool the paper-shufflers into thinking you're already established; and,
- it will discourage thos cretins who look for new guys to jerk around.
