Interesting Article in NYTimes today about entrepreneurship. Down economies give more people the opportunity to start something of their own.
I think it's true that when the status quo is good (at your old job) you just may not have the drive to start your own thing. But when you're kicked out of the nest, so to speak, you learn quickly how well you can fly.
Maybe less true for artists? You tell me if you needed to be kicked out of the nest or did you leap? Leave us a comment....
Unemployment Can Lead to Entrepreneurship - NYTimes.com.
I think it's true that when the status quo is good (at your old job) you just may not have the drive to start your own thing. But when you're kicked out of the nest, so to speak, you learn quickly how well you can fly.
Maybe less true for artists? You tell me if you needed to be kicked out of the nest or did you leap? Leave us a comment....
Unemployment Can Lead to Entrepreneurship - NYTimes.com.
Others among the unemployed are taking the entrepreneurial route. The most recent Index of Entrepreneurial Activity by the Kauffman Foundation showed a slight uptick of new businesses in 2008 — a full recessionary year — over 2007. An average of 320 Americans out of 100,000 formed a business each month, Kauffman said. What’s more, it found, the patterns “provide some early evidence that ‘necessity’ entrepreneurship is increasing and ‘opportunity’ entrepreneurship is decreasing.” Accidental or by design, entrepreneurship is on the rise again this year. LegalZoom, the online legal document service, says the number of new businesses it helped to form was up 10 percent in the first half of the year, compared with the period a year earlier. “We were surprised,” says Brian Liu, co-founder and chairman of LegalZoom. “We expected there to be a drastic downtick.”
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