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A Recession Is No Worse Than Any Other Time to Start a Business

Why you have just as good of a shot in an economic downturn

David Sax
Published in
8 min readMay 19, 2020

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On May 6, I got a message from my cousin Stacey, who had just returned from a yearlong maternity leave to the global consulting firm where she’d been working for the past decade. “Well, I will be joining the entrepreneurial ranks shortly,” she wrote. “Got…

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David Sax
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Journalist and Writer. Canuck. Author of “The Soul of an Entrepreneur”, “The Revenge of Analog”, “The Tastemakers”, “Save the Deli”, and unwritten books.