Thoughts from Mike Templeton » entrepreneurs http://mikethoughts.com Thoughts on marketing, social media, and web strategy Tue, 20 Apr 2010 02:06:33 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Risk-takers are Inspiring http://mikethoughts.com/2009/04/06/risk-takers-are-inspiring/ http://mikethoughts.com/2009/04/06/risk-takers-are-inspiring/#comments Tue, 07 Apr 2009 04:32:32 +0000 Mike Templeton http://mikethoughts.com/?p=136 While big corporations are laying people off and America experiences the highest unemployment rates in a long time, there are still those who are willing to take risks. In fact, Iowa State University economist Liesl Eathington said the Midwest tends to see an increase in business start-ups during tough economic times as people laid off from jobs are forced to find ways to make money (Business Record).

A recent Business Record article by Sarah Bzdega profiles three Des Moines area business owners who are taking risks and have started their own businesses, and quite frankly, I’m inspired by them. I’ve been running a marketing and web strategy consultancy of my own on the side since March 2007, but never had the guts to take it full-time. And now I’ve just started a new job, which puts plans for Dosovo (and all of my other projects) even farther behind. However, these business owners (and many others like them) have given it all up for a chance to live the dream. They’re hustling. They’re making it happen.

I hope everything works out for these business owners and the hundreds/thousands of others trying to make a go of it right now. It’s these small businesses that are probably going to pull us out of this thing we’re worked ourselves into.

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