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Baby Boomers May Be Your Biggest Startup Competitors

Startup Professionals Musings

These could convince you that the correct icon for an entrepreneur may now have gray hair, rather than the warm glow of youth: The percent of entrepreneurs who are Baby Boomer starting a business since 1996 has grown from 14.3 percent to 24.3 percent last year. These trends seem likely to persist.

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Encore Entrepreneur Is The New Baby Boomer Lifestyle

Startup Professionals Musings

These could convince you that the correct icon for an entrepreneur may now have gray hair, rather than the warm glow of youth: The percent of entrepreneurs who are Baby Boomer starting a business since 1996 has grown from 14.3 percent to 24.3 percent last year. These trends seem likely to persist.

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15 Mobile Security Best Practices For SMBs (Or Anyone Else For That Matter)

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Ads are served from a third-party advertising server or network and sometimes they are truly malicious and can attack the device. Avoid auto-upload of photos to social networks. In 2004 Don moved to threat research. Avoid adware supported “FREE” applications. formerly CA).

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PC For Rent – How To Make Money Searching For Extraterrestrial Intelligence

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Regular computers must be united into a sophisticated computing network; big tasks should be broken into smaller ones; and all the possible contingencies — like slow internet or sudden computer shutdowns — must be taken into consideration. To solve any substantial computing task you’ll need more than one computer. Prime time.

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How and Why To Be an Angel Investor

David Teten

approx 2004-09. 1961- 1996. Many pursue an “active” retirement where they can not only keep up-to-date with current trends in their areas of interest, but also make use of their experience and networks to provide operational expertise, general management advice, and critical introductions. approx 1999-07.

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The Age of Entrepreneurship

Startup Professionals Musings

Among a sample of companies started in 2004, two-thirds of founders were in the 35-54 age bracket. The 55-64 age bracket exhibited the highest rate of entrepreneurial activity every year from 1996 to 2008, while the 20-34 bracket actually had the lowest rate. So why is this important? is inching higher.

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Knowing When It’s Time To Sell Your Startup

YoungUpstarts

Believe it or not, three years after founding the company in 1996, Larry Page and Sergey Brin actually tried to sell Google for $1 million. Google reportedly turned down buyout offers from Microsoft shortly before the 2004 IPO. Unique social networking product. Unprofitable. Questionable business model. Rapidly growing market.

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