Comments on: Entrepreneurs – Don’t Be Afraid of GDP Growth Rate

By: ErinZILLA

ErinZILLA — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 22:00:32 +0000

Very cool and very true. Times like these remind me the importance of passion, honor and responsibility. I know one thing for sure, a bad economy is never going to stop me from attaining my dreams.

By: David Campbell

David Campbell — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 20:34:07 +0000

Alas, it appears the Economist shares your sentiments.

http://www.economist.com/specialreports/displayst...

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The CU New Venture Challenge: Get Your Funding On | University Beat — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 12:58:50 +0000

[...] trump economy. Brad Feld, Managing Director of the venture capital firm Foundry Group, recently pointed on his blog to all the name-brand firms started in a downturn: Microsoft, Cisco, Apple, and Adobe, to name just [...]

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The CU New Venture Challenge: Get Your Funding On | On the Radar... — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 12:57:17 +0000

By: vbrief.com

vbrief.com — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 09:01:57 +0000

Entrepreneurs – Don’t Be Afraid of GDP Growth Rate…

Great companies are started in recessions–the data…

By: “Started During A Recession” « ecpm blog

“Started During A Recession” « ecpm blog — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 07:14:21 +0000

[...] Published March 18, 2009 Advertising Statistics , Internet Economics , Venture Capital This is where I’ll point to whenever I refer to the meme about good startups that were created during a [...]

By: A Great Time To Launch A Good Startup | All about MICROSOFT

A Great Time To Launch A Good Startup | All about MICROSOFT — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 20:01:55 +0000

[...] admin on Mar.17, 2009, under Microsoft From Feld Thoughts: All the economics and newscasters like to talk about GDP Growth Rate (and its importance to life, [...]

By: Dijital Life » Starting a company during a down economy

Dijital Life » Starting a company during a down economy — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 18:36:05 +0000

[...] who are in the middle of starting up something now, here is a good diagram to look at (citing from Brad Feld). It shows some empirical data between the timing of economic cycles and good companies [...]

By: Aaron Johnson – Links: 3-15-2009

Aaron Johnson – Links: 3-15-2009 — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 09:47:45 +0000

[...] Entrepreneurs – Don’t Be Afraid of GDP Growth Rate The list of companies started during periods of negative GDP Growth include Wang, TI, DEC, Fairchild, EDS, Compuserve, Intel, Atari, CA, Apple, Microsoft, Amdahl, Autodesk, Sun, Compaq, Cisco, 3Com, Genzyme, EMC, Amgen, Lotus, EA, Adobe, AOL, Dell, Cisco, and Network Appliance. I know the startup story of many of them and it includes single-mindedness of purpose, frugality/capital efficiency, and more sweat than equity. (categories: startups entrepreneurship economy motivation ) [...]