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Optimism Grows for Startups

John Rampton | Wall Street Journal | Full Story

Americans were more optimistic about starting a business in 2013 than in any year since 2001, according to an entrepreneurship survey released Wednesday.

  

Forty-seven percent of 5,698 U.S. adults polled between April and June of last year said that there were "good opportunities" for launching a new venture.

  

That is up from 43% of 5,542 who were surveyed in 2012, and 25% of those surveyed in 2006, according to the so-called Global Entrepreneurship Monitor.


Jacob Geiger | Work In, Richmond | Full Story

Melissa Karlson and Andrea Hammock often talked about business ideas while watching their small children.

 

The two were neighbors in Chesterfield County, and each have a pair of children under the age of four. When Hammock was laid-off from her job doing internal communications at Media General, Inc. 18 months ago, the pair decided the timing was perfect to turn one of their ideas into a reality.