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Baby Boomers May Be Your Biggest Startup Competitors

Startup Professionals Musings

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. Business-startup rates in America increased the most in the Midwest and South. These trends seem likely to persist. 5%), but still remains higher than the native-born rate.

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Encore Entrepreneur Is The New Baby Boomer Lifestyle

Startup Professionals Musings

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. Business-startup rates in America increased the most in the Midwest and South. These trends seem likely to persist. 5%), but still remains higher than the native-born rate.

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Advice From a Successful Female Business Owner: “Don’t Wait Until You are at the Top of Your Game to Get Covered”

Women Entrepreneurs Can

in 2004 and has grown her project management company into a success that makes $1 million in revenue annually. 13% were dissatisfied with corporate America. Furthermore, the Insurance Information Institute estimates that close to 40% of small business owners have no insurance at all. Violet Stephens started Proje Inc.

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6 Tips for Coming Up With Your Million-Dollar Business Idea

Up and Running

Voices.com , an online marketplace that matches voice actors with advertising agencies and TV and radio stations, began in 2004 as an idea scribbled down on a napkin by newlyweds David and Stephanie Ciccarelli. Today, that niche has grown into a chasm and YogaFit® has become the largest training school for yoga instructors in North America.

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25 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Business

Hearpreneur

Whilst teaching 16-18-year-old college students part-time, I had taken on a Flash website build in mid-2004 for a highly-reputed jewelry company in Bristol, UK, referred to me by a friend, and done a good job, other website opportunities started to come in. In his case, he built commercial buildings in Toronto, Canada.

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Why Wilmington, Delaware Is The Best Place To Start Your New Business

YoungUpstarts

Among them are Bank of America , JP Morgan Chase, and the United Kingdom’s HSBC. In 2004, her articles and interviews were featured in Supersport Magazine, a local print out for motocross enthusiasts. Historically, many renowned corporations have roots planted firmly along the Delaware River.

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LinkedIn: The Series A Fundraising Story ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

Google is still a private company (their IPO was Aug 2004). conference happened at the end of 2004). If Reid were to start a company today he’d probably have every VC in America offering to back him, but this wasn’t necessarily the case when we started LinkedIn out of his apartment in Mountain View at the end of 2002.