Are You Facing Layoffs and Want to Start a Business of Your Own?

In the post-Covid world, some tech employers are downsizing.  Are you facing layoffs? The best time for developing your own business is while you are still employed, not when you are out of a job. 

Forbes Column 2009: Advice For Laid-Off Engineers

Here’s the new Forbes piece, Advice For Laid-Off Engineers. It profiles several entrepreneurs whose path to entrepreneurship began upon being laid off. Some continued in engineering. Some explored other markets.

Deal Radar 2009: Jimmy Beans Wool

My regular readers know that one of the aims of both Entrepreneur Journeys and this blog is to promote entrepreneurship as way to take control of one’s future. In service of this aim, in 2009 the blog will continue to feature stories of people who were laid off from their jobs and made what is

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Deal Radar 2008: Saki Seat

Along with posts on education and health care, Deal Radar will also be featuring entrepreneurs who have managed to turn adversity into opportunity. Today’s post looks at the story of Glen Malmskog, an electronics engineer by training who had been laid off from his job in the tech industry and switched to becoming an entrepreneur.