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Baby Boomers May Be Your Biggest Startup Competitors

Startup Professionals Musings

Partially due to the economy, but also due to longer, healthier lives and changes in job tenure, Boomers are now expected to stay in the labor force longer, and according to a USNews article, will likely dominate the labor market by 2024. Business-startup rates in America increased the most in the Midwest and South.

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Baby Boomers Are Surpassing Gen-Y As Entrepreneurs

Startup Professionals Musings

Partially due to the economy, but also due to longer, healthier lives and changes in job tenure, 60% of working Boomers are now expected to stay in the labor force, with real power and influence, for at least seven more years, to 2020. Business-startup rates in America increased the most in the Midwest and South.

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Your Next Startup Will Likely Be Run By a Boomer

Startup Professionals Musings

Partially due to the economy, but also due to longer, healthier lives and changes in job tenure, 62% of working Boomers are now expected to stay in the labor force, with real power and influence, for at least nine more years, to 2020. Business-startup rates in America increased the most in the Midwest and South.

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Encore Entrepreneur Is The New Baby Boomer Lifestyle

Startup Professionals Musings

Partially due to the economy, but also due to longer, healthier lives and changes in job tenure, Boomers are now expected to stay in the labor force longer, and according to a USNews article, will likely dominate the labor market by 2024. Business-startup rates in America increased the most in the Midwest and South.

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Boomers are Driving a New Entrepreneurship Boom

Startup Professionals Musings

Partially due to the economy, but also due to longer, healthier lives and changes in job tenure, 62% of working Boomers are now expected to stay in the labor force, with real power and influence, for at least nine more years, to 2020. Business-startup rates in America increased the most in the Midwest and South.

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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. Don’t get focused on the tech or how to dominate the market, just identify a problem and set about solving it.

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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. My interests were in technology, and my dreams were in California.