I'm a fellow hacker, no economist, but I'd say that now is probably a good time. The state of the economy is going to be irrelevant until you go for the first b

I'm a fellow hacker, no economist, but I'd say that now is probably a good time. The state of the economy is going to be irrelevant until you go for the first big investment, at the very least. That's typically quite a bit of time down the line, by which time you'll be catching the economy at its best, during an upswing. If your first big investment is really early on, chances are you're onto something pretty significant, in which case the economy isn't going to stop you anyway. ~phil