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Fri 02 Feb 2010Now or never businesses born in the recession
Irish entrepreneurs discuss the benefits of starting up in the current recession, writes OLIVE KEOGH
DESPITE THE deepening recession there was no shortage of people willing to start new businesses in 2009. Some did so because they always wanted to. Others because they had to. According to Irish results from the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM), one in five people now starting new businesses in Ireland is a “necessity entrepreneur”.
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