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Karl Hills (left) of Capsearch and MeritBuilder's Dustin Henderson unwind with some foosball after some hard core white-board brainstorming. Capsearch and MeritBuilder, two promising Little Rock startups, share downtown office space.

The economy may be in recovery mode, but jobs continue to lag. Not all of us are back to work just yet.

One place where the jobs sun always shines is the land of Entrepreneurship. Of course, that sun may ultimately supernova, collapsing into a bottomless black vacuum of self-doubt and despair ... but we digress. Point is, jobs are always available there. Opportunity thrives, economy be darned (and possibly socks) -- sometimes because of that lagging economy.

What you do with that opportunity is what entrepreneurship is all about.

Arkansas Business -- you know, that little Monday shopper -- is all about entrepreneurship this week. From how Everett Buick GMC carved out a niche in tough economic times to become one of the country's most successful dealerships, to how Little Rock's own gardening guru P. Allen Smith literally grew an empire, to why more Arkansas students are studying entrepreneurship and starting their own businesses, to where aspiring tech-based entrepreneurs can find funding, and the scoop on a new program designed to help entrepreneurs in the Delta, it's in AB this week.

Looking for a job doesn't have to entail scouring the want ads. (But please feel free to peruse the AB jobs board.) If you can't find the right job, then make the right job. Then you can play foosball all day like the folks at two promising Little Rock startups, Capsearch and MeritBuilder.

Actually, they don't play ALL day... They do a lot of brainstorming, building, networking, growing, pitching. And they're pretty much always on the clock. But they do get to wear flip flops if they want.

Which, after all, is enticement No. 1 to the prospect of being your own boss. And the foosball table is always an option.

Oh, and check out these commentaries as well from Connect Arkansas' Michelle Stockman and University of Arkansas entrepreneurship expert Jeff Amerine, who writes the critically acclaimed Techpreneurship series in the INOV8 blog at Innovate Arkansas.