Charleston-area business helping entrepreneurs start companies amid pandemic
NORTH CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCSC) – The economic uncertainty brought on by the pandemic led many would-be entrepreneurs to face the risks of starting a business and decide to make a go of it.
One Charleston-area business has been helping people across the country bring those ideas to fruition.
Jake Hare, who founded startup incubator Launchpeer six years ago, assumed the pandemic would force them to take a hit like most other businesses. Instead, he said business has actually grown as people who put off their entrepreneurial ideas because of the risk decided now was the time to make them happen.
“A lot of people were saying that ‘My career right now is okay, but I’m starting to realize because of the pandemic that there isn’t any more safety in working for an employer when the employer can shut down any day,’ and we saw that happening a lot during the pandemic, here in Charleston, all over the country,” he explained.
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