Good businesses for entrepreneurs to start in a recession?
pg: Many startups are good to start in recessions, because the new technology they develop is often cheaper than what it replaces.  You just have to pitch it from the money-saving side.  E.g. if you build something with 2x performance for a given price, then in bad economic times you want to sell it as saving people 50% for a given performance rather than giving people twice the performance for the same price.(I realize your question was about startups for people who are out of work.  I just wanted to point out that that is not the only, or probably the best, type of startup to start in a recession.)