Your Next Startup Will Likely Be Run By a Boomer

Posted by martinzwilling under Startups
From http://blog.startupprofessionals.com 4493 days ago

Contrary to what most of you might guess, the highest rate of entrepreneurial activity over the last few years is not Gen-Y young upstarts, but Baby Boomers in the 55-64 year age group. In fact, according to a study by the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, these Boomers are actually driving a new entrepreneurship boom.

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Written by HeatherStone
4492 days ago

Fantastic article, Martin. It really encourages me, as an adult student and one who will be entering the workforce and/or starting my own business at Gen X age. My generation has to hand it to the boomers, "it" being both the bad, like the drain on social security and medicare, and the good, being what your post was about--their entrepreneurial spirit. Hopefully, because of the sheer numbers of boomers, they can reinvent the workforce and lead business people to value older workers, so that my generation can benefit too.

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