You do indeed require capital to either start or buy a business already established.

[Silco made a point of looking like he was considering, stroking his chin with his fingers before nodding.]

I'll give you one or two months to run one of my businesses. I will give you seven percent of the daily earnings for those months. That should provide you enough to find a place of your own and begin negotiations with one of the natives for their business. Your skill set should work for negotiations of that vein.

[There's a catch, of course. But he'd gauge interest first.]