{"id":2411,"date":"2009-06-24T16:54:31","date_gmt":"2009-06-24T20:54:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/?p=2411"},"modified":"2017-11-06T11:41:38","modified_gmt":"2017-11-06T16:41:38","slug":"jobless-opt-for-entrepreneurship-over-job-hunting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/2009\/06\/jobless-opt-for-entrepreneurship-over-job-hunting\/","title":{"rendered":"Jobless opt for entrepreneurship over job hunting."},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_2420\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2420\" style=\"width: 171px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-2420 size-medium\" title=\"Irma Becerra-Fernandez\" src=\"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/irma-214x300.jpg\" alt=\"Irma Becerra-Fernandez\" width=\"171\" height=\"240\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2420\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Irma Becerra-Fernandez<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>In a tough economy, when people get laid off, they might not be keen to start the process of a job search. Some are developing a business plan, securing financing and making the adjustment to being self-employed. An article appearing in <em>The Miami Herald<\/em> on June 24, 2009, quotes <strong>Irma Becerra-Fernandez<\/strong>, director of the Eugenio Pino and Family Global Entrepreneurship Center at Florida International University (FIU) commenting on the thorny matter of risk, inherent in any new venture.<\/p>\n<p>On June 30, 2009, the article appeared on bnd.com, which serves Southwestern Illinois and the St. Louis, Missouri, region.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Media Coverage<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/business.fiu.edu\/pdf\/PrintJuly2009\/a-niche-out-of-necessity.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">A niche out of necessity<\/a> &#8211; TampaBay.com<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a tough economy, when people get laid off, they might not be keen to start the process of a job search. Some are developing a business plan, securing financing and making the adjustment to being self-employed. An article appearing in The Miami Herald on June 24, 2009, quotes Irma Becerra-Fernandez, director of the Eugenio [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":71,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[694,697,784,813,1838,2559],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2411"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/71"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2411"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2411\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29443,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2411\/revisions\/29443"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}