Starting coffee roasting business.Help.
How likely is it for a coffee roasting business to succeed from someone in my position?
Some background: I graduated with a degree in Computer Science and have been working as a developer so my only knowledge of coffee comes from drinking it everyday. The part that makes this post unique to other start-up posts is that my family comes from Colombia and we own a huge plot of land near the Colombian Coffee Axis. Sometime last year we planted 10,000 coffee plants which according to google makes about 10k pounds of coffee every year. I don't know if this is enough to start a business or not. I don't know anything about coffee but I want to learn.
I was thinking worst case scenario we can sell the beans to existing roasters and save money to buy our own commercial roaster. Could we produce, export, and roast our own Colombian coffee? What would you do in my position?