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Your Next Startup Will Likely Be Run By a Boomer

Startup Professionals Musings

These indicate that the correct icon for an entrepreneur may now have gray hair, rather than the warm glow of youth: The number of Baby Boomers starting a business from 1996 to 2011 rose nearly 7 percent, while the start-up rate by those aged 20 to 44 fell about 5 percent.

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Baby Boomers Are Surpassing Gen-Y As Entrepreneurs

Startup Professionals Musings

These indicate that the correct icon for an entrepreneur may now have gray hair, rather than the warm glow of youth: The percent of entrepreneurs who are Baby Boomer starting a business since 1996 has grown from 14.3 Six out of 10 Internet users aged 50-64 use social media now, and the growth rate continues to increase.

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15 Mobile Security Best Practices For SMBs (Or Anyone Else For That Matter)

YoungUpstarts

Ads require an Internet connection and therefore turning off the data connection can stop the ads from popping up. Ads are served from a third-party advertising server or network and sometimes they are truly malicious and can attack the device. Avoid auto-upload of photos to social networks. formerly CA).

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I’m Excited to Welcome Aaron Batalion to Lightspeed!

Lightspeed Venture Partners

I didn’t know anything about the internet, but I knew that he was a very smart guy, so I called him and asked if I could come. He said yes, so I found myself in Los Angeles during the first internet boom. So we didn’t invest but kept in touch and I tried to be helpful.

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I’m Exited to Welcome Aaron Batalion to Lightspeed!

Lightspeed Venture Partners

I didn’t know anything about the internet, but I knew that he was a very smart guy, so I called him and asked if I could come. He said yes, so I found myself in Los Angeles during the first internet boom. So we didn’t invest but kept in touch and I tried to be helpful.

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Transitioning To a Mobile Centric World

abovethecrowd.com

DirecTV has supported this feature for some time, initially on the Internet via the browser and more recently via their smartphone application. For each and every Internet company out there, mobile is rising as a percentage of all user visits. Likewise Priceline and Expedia rule travel, not some travel company that exited pre-Internet.

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Why the Browser Matters

Ben's Blog

Before my partner Marc Andreessen and his friends at the University of Illinois invented the browser in 1993, most people thought only scientists and researchers would use the Internet. The Internet was thought to be too arcane, insecure and slow to meet real business needs. The implications of the propriety vision were not good.

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