I don't think you should really let the state of the economy affect you that much one way or the other. As the owner of a fledgling company, you'll have a lot

I don't think you should really let the state of the economy affect you that much one way or the other. As the owner of a fledgling company, you'll have a lot of flexibility to adapt to the market as needed. The people who are in trouble are more likely to be established businesses who have already built a lot of infrastructure designed to extract profit from revenue sources that are currently drying up. This leaves them unpleasantly stuck with the overhead for that infrastructure but not the expected profit. Unless you're running around looking for capital (which is probably expensive in terms of equity right now), I'd guess you'll be relatively unscathed by the economy.