Bo Fishback, vice president of entrepreneurship at the Kauffman Foundation, predicts an explosion of entrepreneurship among people in their 30s as a byproduct of the recession.

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Earlier this year, Bo Fishback, a vice president at the Kauffman Foundation, estimated that the number of contests had doubled since they last identified 353 of them in 2006. (Click here for more information on the 15 Biggest Small Business Competitions).

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