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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 May Be Your Biggest Startup Competitors

Startup Professionals Musings

These could convince you 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 percent to 24.3 percent last year. 5%), but still remains higher than the native-born rate.

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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 Social networking penetration by Boomers has now caught up with the other age groups, reaching about 80% across the board.

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The Rise Of Cloud Computing

YoungUpstarts

Cloud computing has become a buzzword in the recent years, with numerous companies providing the technology to enable organizations to access applications over a network to remote computing sites. Content Delivery Networks (CDN) Join the Fray. by Yi Ning Lim, marketing specialist at GMO GlobalSign.

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[Malaysia] [Event] InfoSecurity World 2012 – Combating The Rapid Rise In Cyber Threats

YoungUpstarts

ISWec 2012 2012 was created in recognition of the lack of strategic platforms for buyers and sellers to network in the region, as well as to allow local technologies in Malaysia to have an avenue to showcase their products.

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Want to Know How First Round Capital was Started?

Both Sides of the Table

Infonautics went public in 1996 and Half.com was sold to eBay in 2000. CEO Network – CEO’s from the portfolio companies are introduced to each other. The discussion with Howard Morgan starts off by acknowledging Josh Kopelman as a co-founder of First Round Capital. and Half.com. They have sixteen people on staff.

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See More than 120 Speakers and Mentors at The Lean Startup Conference

Startup Lessons Learned

Bill Gross founded Idealab in 1996, making it the longest-running technology incubator alive today. Bob Sutton is a Stanford professor and the author of several best-selling books on standout management, including Scaling Up Excellence , an investigation of high-growth companies.

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