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How Baby Boomers Fit In The Realm Of Entrepreneurship

Startup Professionals Musings

According to a report last year from the Kauffman Foundation , the highest rate of entrepreneurship in America shifted a few years ago to the Boomer age group, compared to Gen-X (1965 to1980) and Gen-Y (1981 to 1995). Software and hardware development architects and designers. Marketing and sales to Gen-Y customers.

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Startups Are Not Just The Realm Of Young Generations

Startup Professionals Musings

According to the most recent report from the Kauffman Foundation , the highest rate of entrepreneurship in America shifted a few years ago to the Boomer age group, compared to Gen-X (1965 to1980) and Gen-Y (1981 to 1995). Software and hardware development architects and designers. Marketing and sales to Gen-Y customers.

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Is the Lean Startup Dead?

Steve Blank

Most entrepreneurs today don’t remember the Dot-Com bubble of 1995 or the Dot-Com crash that followed in 2000. As a reminder, the Dot Com bubble was a five-year period from August 1995 (the Netscape IPO ) when there was a massive wave of experiments on the then-new internet, in commerce, entertainment, nascent social media, and search.

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Three Questions To Prevent Your Technology Project From Being Poorly Managed

YoungUpstarts

Most IT projects require a variety of skill sets, from design and software development, to hosting and project management. Julie May is CEO of bytes of knowledge (b:ok) , which she founded in 1995 with her husband, Charles. by Julie May, CEO of bytes of knowledge (b:ok).

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More Successful New Entrepreneurs Are Baby Boomers

Startup Professionals Musings

According to the most recent report from the Kauffman Foundation , the highest rate of entrepreneurship in America shifted a few years ago to the Boomer age group, compared to Gen-X (1965 to1980) and Gen-Y (1981 to 1995). Software and hardware development architects and designers. Marketing and sales to Gen-Y customers.

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First Impressions Matter: The Importance of Great Visual Design

ConversionXL

Thus, visual appeal can be assessed within 50 ms, suggesting that web designers have about 50 ms to make a good first impression. Users form design opinions even in 17 ms. In fact, according to their study some opinions develop even within 17 ms (though the effect was less pronounced on some design factors).

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What we can learn from the evolution of Content Management Systems

The Next Web

From banking software to cell phones, as markets develop and grow, more user-friendly products with fewer but highly-polished features are winning the game. At the same time, tools that until yesterday were considered “less professional” or “not advanced” are replacing the more complex tools originally built for developers and geeks.

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