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How Baby Boomers Fit In The Realm Of Entrepreneurship

Startup Professionals Musings

According to a report last year from the Kauffman Foundation , the highest rate of entrepreneurship in America shifted a few years ago to the Boomer age group, compared to Gen-X (1965 to1980) and Gen-Y (1981 to 1995). Today people over 55 are almost twice as likely to create successful startups as Gen-Y, age 20 to 34.

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Startups Are Not Just The Realm Of Young Generations

Startup Professionals Musings

According to the most recent report from the Kauffman Foundation , the highest rate of entrepreneurship in America shifted a few years ago to the Boomer age group, compared to Gen-X (1965 to1980) and Gen-Y (1981 to 1995). Today people over 55 are almost twice as likely to create successful startups as Gen-Y, age 20 to 34.

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More Successful New Entrepreneurs Are Baby Boomers

Startup Professionals Musings

According to the most recent report from the Kauffman Foundation , the highest rate of entrepreneurship in America shifted a few years ago to the Boomer age group, compared to Gen-X (1965 to1980) and Gen-Y (1981 to 1995). Today people over 55 are almost twice as likely to create successful startups as Gen-Y, age 20 to 34.

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How The Right Employees Have An Innovation Advantage

Startup Professionals Musings

We hear about corporate employees, strangled by slow-moving bureaucracy, that are blocked from making transformative discoveries. In fact, a Wharton Business School study in this decade of the “Top 30 Innovations of the Last 30 Years,” concluded that only eight were first conceived by entrepreneurs, and twenty-two were conceived by employees.

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Sluggish Summer: 3 Tips To Rejuvenate Employees And Keep Your Business At Top Performance

YoungUpstarts

The summer brings humidity, heat, vacations and the well-known fact that employee productivity decreases this time of year. Have an employee appreciation day. This involves entertainment or a fun activity allowing employees to socially engage and interact with one another, but during business hours.

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Can You Trust Any vc's Under 40?

Steve Blank

In theory when you went public, everyone’s shares were now tradable on the stock exchange, but usually the underwriters required a six month “lockup” when company insiders (employees and investors) couldn’t sell. The world of building profitable startups as the primary goal of Venture Capital would end in 1995.

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Why Uber is The Revenge of the Founders

Steve Blank

In 1995 Netscape changed the rules about going public. The founders along with all the other employees would vest their stock over 4 years (earning 1/48 a month). This often is a way for founders and early employees to turn some of their stock into cash before an IPO or sale of company. Founders Take Money Off the Table.

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