There’s an old Chinese saying, “From catastrophe comes disaster, and from disaster comes opportunity.”

Certainly, a lot of people, experts included, would call the economy of the past few years pretty catastrophic. And yes, for a lot of workers and a lot of companies, these years have been terrible. Even though there seems to be a light at the end of the tunnel, companies are still laying off workers and some shutting down.

But for many of those workers who found themselves out of a job, that “disaster” has opened the doors for many entrepreneurial efforts. And it’s not a surprise; If you don’t think that’s really the case, just take a look back to The Great Depression. A number of today’s top companies got their start in the bleakest days of the 1930s, including Hewlett-Packard, United Technologies, Allstate, Ocean Spray, Unilever, Texas Instruments, Advanced Auto Parts and more.
I can’t say for certain, but it seems that today’s entrepreneurs have a larger, faster support system than the business builders of yesteryear.

One example that showed up in a recent issue of Crain’s New York Business is New York University’s New Venture Competition, which coached and mentored a crop of startups and ultimately awarded a grant to a dot-com startup. Other universities are also taking up the cause of entrepreneurs, such as Pace University, with its entrepreneurship lab at the Lubin School of Business, and Columbia Business School’s Eugene Lang Entrepreneurship Center.

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Of course, it will be another 50-70 years before we’ll know if the startups of today will become the Fortune 500 companies of tomorrow. I guarantee their will be more than a handful, and that’s a lot of opportunity from catastrophe.

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