Mississippi Business Journal » new business creation http://msbusiness.com Mississippi Business Journal Fri, 24 May 2013 20:36:00 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 Economic downturn is a great time for startups to begin and flourish http://msbusiness.com/blog/2011/11/27/economic-downturn-is-a-great-time-for-startups-to-begin-and-flourish/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=economic-downturn-is-a-great-time-for-startups-to-begin-and-flourish http://msbusiness.com/blog/2011/11/27/economic-downturn-is-a-great-time-for-startups-to-begin-and-flourish/#comments Sun, 27 Nov 2011 06:00:21 +0000 Amy McCullough http://msbusiness.com/?p=48963 Dynamism in the economy comes from new businesses, but the bad news is new business creation has dropped over the past five years. However, Americans can take comfort in the fact that “50 percent of our largest companies today were founded in either a bear market or in a recession,” said Robert Litan, a senior [...]

The post Economic downturn is a great time for startups to begin and flourish appeared first on Mississippi Business Journal.

]]> http://msbusiness.com/blog/2011/11/27/economic-downturn-is-a-great-time-for-startups-to-begin-and-flourish/feed/ 0