Entrepreneurs, The Clock Is Ticking On Your Career
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Entrepreneurs, The Clock Is Ticking On Your Career
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#2Unless you've hit a home run with one of your startups (which, incidentally, eliminates the need to worry about money again), you'd better start that VC transition before you turn 50.
Starting any major career change after 50 is dicey. I'm not sure there's anything special about VC in this regard.
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#3It strikes me odd to consider venture capital a retirement plan. My anecdotal observation is that the age of successful VCs is decreasing. I'm guessing this follows the need to relate to younger technologies and markets. That's not to say that "older" VCs will disappear, but that the successful 50 year-old venture capitalist of 2027 will have started in 2012. Or 2007.
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#4I really don't like the message of this post. I think the arbitrary expectations people in the startup world place on themselves do a great deal of harm.
I actually regret being exposed to the startup world at such a young age of 17/18. I became totally obsessed with everything startups, especially the stories of newly christened millionaires at ages not much older than mine. I eventually began setting some ridiculously lofty goals for myself that I've failed to meet time and time again, and it's contributed heavily to my often feelings of failure and low self-worth.
So how about this: Instead of rushing to do something before a completely fabricated deadline, chase opportunities with the intent of trying your best and the understanding that no one event or missed deadline renders you a failure or means that you've missed out on life.
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#5If anything, shouldn't entrepreneurs be told to relax? To take a breath and enjoy life? I'm sure this article comes from a good place, but to me, it imparts nothing but a frenzied fear of "not making it in time." No thanks. I imagine most of us already have plenty of that fear in us.
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#6I have experience in a couple of industries where investors would never trust anyone under the age of 40 to run a company, even a startup. It's probably true that the tech industry favors young people, but if you've been an entrepreneur your whole professional life, it shouldn't be hard to transition away from this high tech echo chamber when the time comes.
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#7I really don't like the message of this post. I think the arbitrary expectations people in the startup world place on themselves do a great deal of harm. I actually regret being exposed to the startup world at such a young age of 17/18. I became totally obsessed with everything startups, especially the stories of newly christened millionaires at ages not much older than mine. I eventually began setting some ridiculou…
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#8I really don't like the message of this post. I think the arbitrary expectations people in the startup world place on themselves do a great deal of harm. I actually regret being exposed to the startup world at such a young age of 17/18. I became totally obsessed with everything startups, especially the stories of newly christened millionaires at ages not much older than mine. I eventually began setting some ridiculou…
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 training ponies"
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#9I really don't like the message of this post. I think the arbitrary expectations people in the startup world place on themselves do a great deal of harm. I actually regret being exposed to the startup world at such a young age of 17/18. I became totally obsessed with everything startups, especially the stories of newly christened millionaires at ages not much older than mine. I eventually began setting some ridiculou…
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.
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#10Cargo Cult Capitalism:
Successful startups are filled with young people, so fire all the olds.