Fort Wayne Monday biz section off to a Fresh Start

I like what the Fort Wayne Journal Gazette did with its Monday business section this week in honor of Labor Day — it focused on entrepreneurs who have started companies and dubbed it Fresh Starts.

Business editor Lisa Green writes, “Fresh Starts provides insight and strategies for people who have lost employment but have skills and services they could sell as an entrepreneur.

“Stepping out on your own may seem like a challenge, but you won’t be alone.

“Challenger, Gray & Christmas, a prominent outplacement consulting firm, in late July released results of a survey that showed 8.7 percent of job seekers who gained employment in the second quarter of this year did so by starting their own enterprises.

“That was up from 6.4 percent in the previous quarter and nearly double the startup rate of 4.3 percent in the second quarter of 2008.”

Read more here.