On: Nine Web 2.0 Startups Beating The Odds in Down Economy

Many YC startups are included: Wufoo, Polleverywhere, Posterous, Rescuetime, Dropbox, Posterous, Disqus, Mighty Quiz.

Although if you don't have a business model and revenue for that matter, I wouldn't call you "beating" a recession; I'd call you surviving.

In some economic times, surviving is beating a recession.