With tight credit and a deepening recession, this is a complex time to be an entrepreneur. But a slowing economy hasn't slowed the pace of great ideas – it's just changed the landscape.

Pop!Tech and American Express OPEN asked Storyteller-at-large, Polly LaBarre, to sit down with three Pop!Tech visionaries, and talk about how their ideas can apply to small business. In this special series of dialogues, Polly speaks with Green For All's Van Jones, Kiva.org's Jessica Flannery, and Wired's Chris Anderson.