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Lance Bass is the quintessential illustration of a highly successful and driven jack-of-all-trades: singer, host, actor, producer, writer, entrepreneur, philanthropist and cosmonaut.

Beyond his fame as a member of the phenomenally successful group *NSYNC, where the group sold an impressive 60 million plus records worldwide, Bass has made himself a household name throughout the globe. With countless career highlights in music spanning the past 20 years, including multiple Grammy® nominations, two diamond RIAA awards, MTV Video Music Awards®, American Music Awards® and People's Choice Awards® to name a just a few, he has expanded his accomplishments into multiple entertainment mediums.

Bass can currently be seen as a daily contributing panelist on The Meredith Vieira Show (2014), which he joined in September of 2015. In 2007, Bass lit up Broadway, starring as "Corny Collins" in the smash hit, "Hairspray", published his revealing memoir, "Out of Sync", and danced his way to the finals on season seven of ABC's hit competition show, Dancing with the Stars (2005). In 2003, he was inducted into the Mississippi Musician's Hall of Fame, making him the youngest person to ever receive this honor. In 2012, he joined Sirius XM an

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Actor among entrepreneurs hoping for startup successActor Jacob Young plays a character on TV’s “All My Children”, but he moonlights as an entrepreneur. In June, he launched Totowa-based , a Web site where homeowners can find contractors, preview videos of their work and watch home-repair videos aimed at the do-it-yourselfer.

“I’ve been an actor since I was 17, and I’ll still keep acting, but I’m looking for a second career,” said Young, 30, who plays JR Chandler in the soap opera; he’s also a singer and producer with credits that include Broadway and film.

Launching a new business during a recession is a time-honored path to success, experts say. In part, that’s because demand for many goods and services — food, auto and home repair, medical care — holds up pretty well during an economic slump. And entrepreneurs hope if they can get a new venture off the ground during a recession, they’ll be positioned to cash in on any upturn that comes once consumers and businesses start spending again.

Young and co-founder Slavco Tuskaloski had no qualms about starting a new business tied to the depressed housing industry. Young said he’s banking on a home-repair boom to drive Internet traffic to sites like

“Foreclosures have taken our c