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Frederick I was thinking constraint or even requirement as words, but I'm not sure either really fits. Something inside me still says an obligation is something you have to do and not something you...

Does what I described have another word, then?

I knew you were going to ask me that. :)

Actually no I can't think of another word. I was trying when I wrote my last post and nothing came to me....

"... It's not a right to a job. It's a right to work ..." - You word your objection very well, but there is still an obligation imposed. Your right to do work imposes an obligation on me to not do...

That's not always true. We have the right to free speech. Where does that put an obligation on someone? The right to work also doesn't put obligations on others. It's not a right to a job. It's a...

I'd say staring a business is even easier than you described since you don't actually need to fill out the DBA. All you have to do is declare you yourself that you're starting a business and you just...

We never compare the difficulty of starting a business with the difficulty involved in getting a job.

Because we're a small business forum devoted to people owning small businesses. I know you...

This might just be semantics, but I think all those statistics are about x percent of new businesses aren't in business after a year. I don't know that they specifically say the business fails or is...

Which only goes to prove you can make numbers do anything you want them to do!

Statistics tell the truth, but not the whole truth.

It might. I certainly won't argue that. It didn't for me. I saw it as a challenge and and encouragement after my first business didn't work as planned. I also felt very good when my second business...

I do understand what you were saying and I also agree with you. Failure is thrown around sometimes in ways where it's not appropriate. For the statistics I think those early companies failed, though...

there are so many more perceived problems to help with

That's a great point. You're right that businesses ultimately exist to help people solve problems and there are often more problems to solve...

I can't seem to find the article now, but over the weekend I came across one suggesting that a down economic time was actually the best time to start a new business. I think the companies listed...

most businesses fail in good times....why risk your $$ when the odds are even worse

Because the odds aren't worse. Things are just different. No matter when you start a business there is going to...

Exactly. There are always opportunities no matter what the economy. The rules change a little as far as what's a good opportunity, but there are ways to make money in any economy.

One of the best bases for starting a business is to identify a problem and solve it. Well, there are likely to be more problems during recessionary times, and therefore more problems for new...

You know I think both Frederick and myself were saying the same things about advertising a year or two ago when all the current economic troubles were near their worst. I'm sure we weren't the only...