Financial risk
As you may already know, the main concern that you should consider before starting a home based business is the potential of losing all your saving and investment if your business fail.

Personal pressure
When you first step your foot into your own business world, there is no escape. As a business owner, you have no choice to take accountability to all business risk that it may happen. As a home based business owner, there will be nobody working for you, you are the director, you are the accountant, you are the marketer and you are the customer service for your business as well. You will be facing tons of pressure coming from different aspects and thus you have to learn to cope with your pressure well, to avoid you yourself as the business owner falls in sick, and your business will also falls into a stoppage point.

Sacrifice your own time
Especially during your business start up stage, you will have to sacrifice a lot of your personal time to get your own home based business running. If you are running a moon light home based business, you may have to sacrifice your weekend or holidays, even for some active business owners, they will work for their own business even after their full time job. Working 30 hours extra a day to get your things done is a must if you are serious on your own business.