These are truly the times that try one's soul and tried souls give birth to folks with severance packages trying to launch businesses.
It may well be that your best course is to invest in is yourself. Just keep in mind that you must have $ to invest AND to live on. The next step when you have rounded up all your savings, your wife's, your immediate relatives and your close personal friend's is to do market research and use that research to prepare a market plan.
If you cannot find a market (customers who want your product/service) keep looking for a job.
