I'm considering doing a companion post, "It's Never Too Late To Start." Would folks want to see that?
If you have data, yes. If not, you are just being the antagonist.
Entrepreneurs, The Clock Is Ticking On Your Career
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#52Earlier quoted context omitted.
The arbitrary, overly-specific, and gosh-darn unlikeliness of the goals expressed here remind me more of the sort of life plan you'd expect from a ten-year-old girl than from a full-grown man. "OK, I'm going to meet my boyfriend at sixteen so we can be married by nineteen and then I'll have four kids in the next four years so I can be the world's greatest ballerina by the time I'm twenty-four and then I can start tra…
No matter how you spin it, we're all scared monkeys wearing blue jeans, trying to make sense of what's happening around us on this small piece of rock flying through space at ungodly speeds. Full grown men aren't much wiser than 10 year old girls.
Holy cow, quote of the night
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#53I'm considering doing a companion post, "It's Never Too Late To Start." Would folks want to see that?
If you have data, yes. If not, you are just being the antagonist.
Vivek Wadhwa has the data. But ultimately, what good is the data to the individual entrepreneur? The point is that there are ways to maximize your chances for success that are different at age 45 than at age 25.
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#54This stuff is always funny to me. I am going to be 47 next month. I have two adult sons in their twenties. I am routinely asked if I am their sister. People guess I am in my thirties. Meanwhile, the average life expectancy for my genetic disorder is mid thirties. So I joke that, in human years, I am the equivalent of an octogenerian...and, daang I look good for an eighty year old. My plan is to be an entrepreneur. I…
The wonderful thing about entrepreneurship is that if you're not relying on the vagaries of investors, your age, gender, race, academics, and many other traditional "criteria" are irrelevant. Deliver results, and you will be successful.
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#55Earlier quoted context omitted.
I think a lot of that is because of an overly narrow and idealistic picture of success. I remember thinking in college that I'd half-ass my coursework so I could go do a major open-source project so that I'd have a kick-ass resume when I entered the working world. The project was nowhere near as kick-ass as I hoped (I did the software for fictionalley.org), but it did serve 100k people or so, and I didn't have any tr…
great post. Really, age is meaningless, the more meaningful number is how much time does one have left. Of course, nobody knows this with any certainty, so just proceed every day as if it were your last or the beginning of the next 1000 days, take your pick. (Yes, I understand at the extremes of age, odds start weighing heavily, but we're talking about 50 vs. 30 here). I teach guitar, sometimes I'll get an older stud…
The best time is yesterday. The next best time is today. The clock is ticking on all of us.
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#56PG once stated that he wouldn't fund a first-time startup founder over the age of 35. I remember reading that at 28, and saying "oh crap. I have 7 years."
5 years later, I know how to make my own money. I'm no longer worried about meeting PG at 36.
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#57That's total crap.
"Illusion of Entrepreneurship" sticks the median age at 41.
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#58Correlations tell you about the data selection process, not the data points. A lot of 45 year olds who can successfully run a new business project already are, thanks to their connections and track record. These success stories don't show up at a VCs office begging for money.
Valley "ageism" sounds a lot like sour grapes from VCs who are only attractive to young people who haven't built up credibility yet, and old people who cannot imagine that 25 years of being turned down by their boss could possibly have anything to do with their talents.
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#59 Ah yes, when I buy any product I always do a search beforehand to make sure the founder was of the correct age when the company was founded
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#60The problem with articles like this is they actually contribute nothing. What is one supposed to do in response? Work harder? Real entrepreneurs pay no heed to the arbitrary limitations implied by this sort of BS. Carry on.
The proper response is to understand the biases that exist and plan for how to succeed regardless. This might involve changing your plans, or it might just be a matter of resetting expectations.
The successful entrepreneurs I know aren't very good at resetting their expectations.