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The Demographics Of New Venture Founders Are Changing

Startup Professionals Musings

Contrary to what you might guess, the highest rate of small business and entrepreneurial growth over the last few years is not Gen-Y upstarts, but Boomers over the age of 50, now called encore entrepreneurs. One new incentive is the falling transaction costs and barriers to entry for entrepreneurs of every age. In the U.S.,

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Five Keys To Remote Business Success Every Founder Needs To Know In 2021

YoungUpstarts

by Richard Roth, Founder of Progressive Tech. Out of any great challenge, new entrepreneurs rise up to fill new needs and desires. Consider an IT support plan with at least quarterly systems assessments and live on-demand user assistance. Don’t let technology be a burden.

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Baby Boomers May Be Your Biggest Startup Competitors

Startup Professionals Musings

Contrary to what you might guess, the highest rate of entrepreneurial growth over the last few years is not Gen-Y upstarts, but Boomers over the age of 50, now called encore entrepreneurs. In the Kauffman Foundation Survey of nearly 5,000 companies that began in 2004, nearly two-thirds of the founders are now between the ages of 35 and 54.

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Requests for Startups in 2024

VC Cafe

Most startups equate the process of fundraising to dating – founders have to typically kiss a lot of frogs until the find the right fit. Technical Support – a “debugging copilot” for the engineers currently working in technical support. trillion by 2030.

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Encore Entrepreneur Is The New Baby Boomer Lifestyle

Startup Professionals Musings

Contrary to what you might guess, the highest rate of entrepreneurial growth over the last few years is not Gen-Y upstarts, but Boomers over the age of 50, now called encore entrepreneurs. In the Kauffman Foundation Survey of nearly 5,000 companies that began in 2004, nearly two-thirds of the founders are now between the ages of 35 and 54.

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Supporting HBCUvc’s VC Lab and Fund

Feld Thoughts

Several people pointed me at Hadiyah Mujhid , the Founder and CEO of HBCUvc. We talked a few times and I offered to support HBCUvc in any way that she wanted. She asked me to support the expansion of HBCUvc’s VC Lab and Fund. The post Supporting HBCUvc’s VC Lab and Fund appeared first on Feld Thoughts.

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So you’ve validated your startup idea. What next?

The Next Web

Ariel Rosenthal is a co-founder at Xprt, a new startup looking to provide instant technical support and shopping advice from reliable and vetted experts. Entrepreneur Analysis and Opinion How-To''s' Working on startups for the last 10 years, I had some successes and some failures. In my previous post, I shared some.