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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.

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Franchise Business: An Option For Millennial Entrepreneurs

YoungUpstarts

Believe it or not, millennials—defined as anyone born between 1981 and 1996, or ages 24–39 — have launched twice as many companies as baby boomers, according to a report by BNP Paribas Global. There are over 4,000 different franchises to choose from in the United States alone, across scores of industries. That follows the data.

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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.

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Opting-out of Face Recognition at Airports

Austin Startup

Generally, any foreign national wanting to visit the United States must obtain a visa. Here’s why but it’s really boring: The 1996 Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act called for the creation of an automated system to record arrivals and departures of non-U.S. Some Background: What is a Visa?

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See More than 120 Speakers and Mentors at The Lean Startup Conference

Startup Lessons Learned

As the emeritus Chief Technology Officer of the United States, he still connects government and Silicon Valley. Bill Gross founded Idealab in 1996, making it the longest-running technology incubator alive today. He’ll talk about making a profit and making a difference in a conversation with New Media Ventures’ Christie George.

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My story and support for the Founders Visa

K9 Ventures

I came to the United States in 1992 at the age of 17 (so there, now you know exactly how old I am!) In December 1996, while I was still a student in the Master of Software Engineering program at Carnegie Mellon, I got bit hard by the entrepreneurial bug. in December 1996, while on a student visa.

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Top 5 Traits That Make Veterans Great Entrepreneurs­­

Up and Running

percent of new entrepreneurs in 1996 and that by 2014, this number had fallen to just 5.6 He is a veteran of the United States Marine Corps, having served at several posts and stations prior to his release from active duty as a Major. In fact, almost 50 percent of veterans owned a business after World War II.

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