Ask HN: how many entrepreneurs here are over 40?

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Post by andrewstuart » Mon, Jan 31, 2011, 8:17 AM UTC

How many HN'ers are over 40?

If so, when did you start your first real business?

I started at 26 and now 43. Still plugging away.

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Post by Mz » Mon, Jan 31, 2011, 8:31 AM UTC

How many HN'ers are over 40?

I'm 45. But I don't really qualify as an entrepreneur at this time. I hope to eventually make enough money online to leave my day job. Not there yet, and nowhere near as close as I would like to be.

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Post by david927 » Mon, Jan 31, 2011, 8:33 AM UTC

21, now 43. And sometimes it feels like a disease. I can't shake it.

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Post by freddealmeida » Mon, Jan 31, 2011, 11:58 AM UTC

just turned 40. This is my fourth company in Japan.

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Post by shooperman » Mon, Jan 31, 2011, 12:14 PM UTC

Started when I was 24 (Gopher, WAIS, Mosaic) and 42 this year. Doing one new one this year ;) David's right, it's a disease.

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Post by TimJYoung » Mon, Jan 31, 2011, 1:34 PM UTC

Almost 41, started my first software business in 1994, and have been working at the second one for 12 years.

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Post by farout » Mon, Jan 31, 2011, 3:16 PM UTC

43 and a woman

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Post by agnesberthelot » Mon, Jan 31, 2011, 7:06 PM UTC

46 ... started last year with my husband. Never imagined I would be doing something like this. A lot of new things to learn ... very exciting actually.