Is now a good time to start a company? Absolutely, says Lynda Resnick, the founder of Fiji Water and POM Wonderful.  From:   http://www.newsweek.com/id/190063

Striking Out On Your Own
Is now a good time to start a company? Absolutely, says Lynda Resnick, the founder of Fiji Water and POM Wonderful.
Nick Summers
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When Lynda Resnick brings her own [...]

JJ Ramberg anchors “Your Business” MSNBC’s weekly show on small business, broadcast on Sundays at 7:30 A.M. ET.  
Last Thursday, she posed the question: “What does it take to be an entrepreneur?”  (information can be found at: http://yourbiz.msnbc.msn.com). The answers posted to the site have been fascinating and informative:
My father was an entrepreneur with multiple unrelated businesses. [...]

I discovered something really cool today – free software that saves you paper, money, and trees!  I downloaded it and couldn’t be happier with the results.  How many times have you wanted to print out a 1 page e-mail or a map from the internet and ended up with 4 pages full of irrelevant data [...]