Sunday, August 23, 2009

NYTIMES: On to Plan B: Starting a Business


By MICKEY MEECE
Published: August 22, 2009
LL them accidental entrepreneurs, unintended entrepreneurs or forced entrepreneurs. A year and a half into the Great Recession, with the jobless rate hovering near double digits, corporate refugees like Lisa Marie Grillos of San Francisco are trying to fend for themselves.
Lynn Zuckerman Gray, at a meeting in a park in New York, lost her job and started a recruiting company called Campus Scout.

Along with her brother Hernan Barangan, Mrs. Grillos started Hambone Designs, after her full-time contract position with Williams-Sonoma as a production manager wasn’t renewed in January. The new company makes bicycle bags that hold things like keys, wallets and cellphones.
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