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Archive Home > 2009 > January > 04 > What bad timing: Hundreds started businesses in ’08

What bad timing: Hundreds started businesses in ’08

By Joyce M. Rosenberg / The Bulletin
January 4, 2009

The economy didn’t look that bad when Laura and Roger Bickford opened their medical clinic back in July.

But by mid-September, the couple was asking an unsettling question: “Oh my God, were we crazy to open the business when we did?”

Starting a business during 2008....

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