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When to Quit Your Day-Job to Focus on Your New Business

At what point should I leave my day-job to focus 100% on my new business? I’m being stretched thinner and thinner every day and find myself physically unable to give 110% to each of my responsibilities, and yet the prospect of leaving a stable, well-paying job in a recession is downright scary if not completely asinine. Then again, I think that a recession is actually the best time to start a new business.

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What to Do if Youve Been Laid Off: Finding a Job in a Recession

11.1 million people are unemployed. The job market is flooded with insanely talented people. And you just got laid off. @%^#!
Even in a strong economy job-hunting is a stressful ordeal, but the prospect of finding a job in a recession can be downright depressing. While there’s no magic trick for finding a job right now, here are some things you can do to drastically increase your chances of finding an opportunity for employment…

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The Year Ahead: Make Better Decisions

2008 and several years preceding it will not go down in history as the best years for good decisions. So let’s make 2009 the Year of Better Decisions. Tom Davenport at Harvard Business Online wrote a great piece on how to improve your decision making process in 2009, and I suggest you give it a read and apply it to your world…

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More Reasons Why Now Is The Time For Hatching Something New

Neil Davidson at Red Gate Software published this post on OnStartups in response to Jason Cohen’s post, 6 reasons why this economy is good for startups. Neil chidingly curses Jason for beating him to the punch, but comes up with 6 more great reasons for why now is as good a time as any for startups…

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How Entrepreneurs Can Survive a Cash-Flow Crisis

If cash is king, the castle keep is looking pretty bare for entrepreneurs, grappling with a recession, a credit crisis, and the fallout from an unprecedented series of bank meltdowns. If you see a crunch coming, barter, liquidate inventory, ask clients for advance payments, and renegotiate vendor relationships, just for starters…

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2009 Will Be an Economic Engine for Change

2009 is shaping up to be a trigger for an unprecedented surge of innovation that may be one of the most important turning points in the last 100 years. Just as a forest fire can reset nature’s lifecycle, a recession can clear the business landscape, sprouting innovation and growth…

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Start Now: 6 Reasons Why This Economy Is Good For Startups

Doom and gloom. Layoffs, bankruptcy, insolvency, bailouts. Blah blah blah Wall Street, blah blah blah Main Street. It’s a terrible time to start a company, right? Wrong! Here are six reasons why you should start your new company right now…

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