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What do General Motors , Burger King , CNN, Uber, and Airbnb all have in common?

all of Which were founded during the economic downturn.

GM began in 1908, when the US economy was in turmoil Now, Burger King turned its first patty in 1953, when the United States started back in the recession, and CNN for his news broadcasts in the year 1980,

For both Uber and Airbnb , put company during the global financial crisis of 2007-09.

These examples show that many of The Best and most durable in times of weak economic activity, the companies are Set Up , according to Dane Strangler, a fellow at the Bipartisan Policy Center in Washington, DC. He Says that the difficult economic background makes it both harder and more nimble for years to Come .

"There's this study from the fire of the idea," he Says . "If you scratch the entry in a recession, you really have to, and to be stingy, to The Company successfully.

"you will try to make it, if you don't have the funding it can get, and try to get clients, if there is no demand. "

sure, We Are in a downturn now have as a result of coronavirus and the subsequent lock round-the-world.

The World Bank predicts that the global economy will shrink by 5. 2% in the year 2020,

the United States and The Bank of England. The 314 years before.

But shows how the story of that successful businesses can be born in difficult times. It could be promising start-ups from the entrepreneurial class of 2020, will go the well-known names?

More new companies are certainly in spite of and as a result of coronavirus. In the USA

That's a 21% increase on the same Seven Days in the year 2019. Whereas, from 2018 to 2019, The Number for the week fell by 3. 3%.

Robert Fairlie, an Economics Professor at the University of California at Santa Cruz , Says the recent rise in party, because more people start businesses when jobs are scarce. He refers to this as "necessity Entrepreneurship ".

"not If someone have the ways in a social insurance job, which is part of the motivation [behind the founding of their own company]," he Says .

had some entrepreneurs ideas for The Company stew for a while.

"the shutdown will have to think more people have had time to, and take your time, back to work time employment plans," Says Prof Fairlie. "So, if there is a business idea that you had, what, could let us try out. "

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Other new start-ups have recognized that bald is as a coronavirus, it has to do business opportunities, which will allow you, your little help in the fight against the pandemic.

This is especially true to fill when It Comes to PPE or personal protective equipment, and The Number of new companies in The Past few months, a gap in the supply.

Matthew Campbell-Hill and his wife Lydia started her business-Aerosol Shield in April. The Company 's eponymous product is a small pop-up medical isolation shield or "tent". A transparent plastic film, attached to a frame made of plastic, it can be placed around a patient's head and shoulders, making medical staff be suspended for the person cough.

"We Are not out to start a business, [but] to start, we went from the knowledge of the subject, The Company is in Six Days , and bulk orders that had played before us, the seventh day. "Says Mr Campbell-Hill, a senior fellow at the University of Birmingham, Institute of Clinical Sciences.

The Shields , he and Lydia - who is a GP worked with Airquee, a Welsh business, which makes the tents, the armies and humanitarian organisations, and is also in Europe the largest manufacturer of bouncy Castles .

Set Up Another business in the UK to life as a result of the coronavirus a Hidden Smile, a face mask supplier set earlier this month by Oxfordshire-based entrepreneur Neil cotton.

The masks are made of two layers of cotton, with a pleated paper filter inside.

"you don't need to replace the filter as often as it is not made available, yet, crucial to the moisture of The Mouth ," Says Mr cotton. "You look like an extra [medical TV drama] Holby City . "

Other industries that have seen a large increase in the economy as a result of the coronavirus, and therefore offer opportunities for new start-ups, Home Improvement , and The Delivery sector.

Nicole Gibbons , founded The Company Clare painting in the year 2018, the sales rocketed as a result of the lockdown. "Normally, people prefer brunch would be on the weekend, and paint their houses. ", She Says . "But now you have Cabin Fever , and want to Do Something . "

Meanwhile, London-based courier business Gophr Says that it has seen the busiest ever two months, more people have a preference for Online Shopping .

For all that think now to Set Up your own company, Markus Berger -de Leon, a partner at the consulting firm McKinsey, Says , think long and hard before you take the plunge. But if you jump, then quickly move.

"you really need to think," should I spend my next few pounds or euros on this, or Something Else ?'," he Says .

"And that makes you also to be welcomed, and scale-ability at the core of your company. And you think that with so little money, as quickly as possible. The start-ups that survive a recession than those who learn the Fastest . "

Source of news: bbc.com