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Like a lot of people nowadays, I’ll be pleasing if I can pay my mortgage nearest year, much less the payroll at a startup company.

So I’m amazed that people keep starting new businesses, now that the economy is in full meltdown.

While banks were failing, Wall Street was crashing and Boeing striking last month, 9,974 mob started the process of licensing a new company in Washington, according to specify records. That’s along the course of from 11,622 in October 2007, but it still makes you astonishment.

Who are these race and what are they thinking?

For answers, I dropped in to Entrepreneur University last Thursday. It’s a daylong event in the place of people starting new companies, held each year in Seattle by the Northwest Entrepreneur Network.

I was expecting sparsely filled rooms. The crowd did seem thinner than in past events, and there was a lot of talk of tough times ahead.

But there were still 250 nation in that place at the Washington State Convention & Trade Center who paid up to $350 apiece to learn how to tune their business plans, pitch to investors and take into one’s employ employees.

Apparently there’s a kind of character who just be able to’t have being stopped, once he or she gets a big idea. Politics aren’t the only place to catch hope and optimism in the present age.

Here are a small in number of the audacious people I met:

John Dietz and Rob Perrier

Background: Both are 40 and living on the Eastside.

Startup: Adometry, a company that will measure the effectiveness of online display ads.

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