> I've been for a long time waiting for that crisis to pop up and I go back to my community to try something new, not as an employee but as an employer. If any

> I've been for a long time waiting for that crisis to pop up and I go back to my community to try something new, not as an employee but as an employer. If anything, the current environment makes it more attractive to start a company, not less. Investment money is cheap and plentiful. Businesses and customers have plenty of money to spend on your products. Risk tolerance is high, so customers are less afraid to take a chance on your unproven business. And if all else fails, you can walk right back into a hot job market and pick up where you left off. All of those traits are reversed in an economic crisis. The idea that a crisis spurs people to take entrepreneurial risk or fosters entrepreneurial success is backwards. Now is just about the optimal time to start a software business, if there ever was one.