Allow me to share with you an article I found
to be interesting and most insightful with
much promise. Now that I am officially considered “over the hill”
For our fifth annual roundup, BusinessWeek readers
nominated a record number of young entrepreneurs.
Meet the 25 most impressive
Welcome to our fifth annual roundup
of the country’s most promising young entrepreneurs.
Before we get started examining the new batch, consider this question:
Who is more likely to start a business:
A college student or a worker
with a few decades of experience?
Yep, you guessed it: the experienced worker.
More from BusinessWeek.com:
• America’s Best Young Entrepreneurs 2009
• Entrepreneurs Who Started Young
• Special Report: America’s Best Young Entrepreneurs
It turns out it’s boomers, not twentysomethings,
who start the most businesses in the U.S.
Over the past decade or so,
the highest rate of entrepreneurial activity
belongs to the 55-64 age group.
The 20-34 age bracket, by contrast, had the lowest rate.
That’s according to a recent
report by Dane Stangler, a senior analyst with the Kauffman Foundation,
based on data collected from 1996 to 2007.
It echoes research by entrepreneur-turned-academic
Vivek Wadhwa, who found that twice as many
tech entrepreneurs create ventures
in their 50s as do those in their early 20s.
So not only are these entrepreneurs
navigating the toughest economy many of us
have ever lived through,
they’re also vastly outnumbered by older,
more experienced competitors,
who usually have more contacts and capital.
That’s even more reason to continue to give young entrepreneurs
the encouragement, respect, and awe that they’ve
received since becoming cultural icons during the dot-com boom.
Stangler says he’s not suggesting young people
aren’t entrepreneurial or won’t be.
“The cachet of large, established companies has taken a hit.
Job tenure has been falling for a long time.
Employment is not going to recover in the very near future.
People across all age groups are going
to take the future into their own hands.”
And one can start there at the above link
to check out what the “over the hill”,
“experienced worker” folk are learning.
And feel free to go here and see how we are
learning the “Real Deal”.
We don’t do MLM… we use MLM
Here’s To Taking The Future In Our Own Hands,
JoAnn
609 517 5306 (est)
p.s.
I’m liking the over the hill ride! wink wink
