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The young college drop outs starting extremely successful companies is an exception not a rule.
Probably. Don't know your situation, and I'm not 40 anyway, so take everything I say with a grain of salt. One thing I've noticed, having worked for startups with older founders: when you're over 35, it's to your advantage to start a different kind of company. When you're in your early 20s, it makes sense to swing for the fences with a new consumer idea that's wildly innovative and nobody really understands. That way…
If anything, more experience means more exposure to more ideas and thus gives you an advantage in coming up with something innovative. There is more cross-pollination.
This is a function of time and effort and so only loosely correlated with age.
Probably. Don't know your situation, and I'm not 40 anyway, so take everything I say with a grain of salt. One thing I've noticed, having worked for startups with older founders: when you're over 35, it's to your advantage to start a different kind of company. When you're in your early 20s, it makes sense to swing for the fences with a new consumer idea that's wildly innovative and nobody really understands. That way…
Probably. Don't know your situation, and I'm not 40 anyway, so take everything I say with a grain of salt. One thing I've noticed, having worked for startups with older founders: when you're over 35, it's to your advantage to start a different kind of company. When you're in your early 20s, it makes sense to swing for the fences with a new consumer idea that's wildly innovative and nobody really understands. That way…
Forget the silly ageist remark above - I know what you were trying to say - and you did it well.
Would highly recommend you read Barry Moltz's: "You Need to be a Little Crazy": http://www.amazon.com/You-Need-Be-Little-Crazy/dp/079318018X... I'm 39.5 with 3 kids and working at my 3rd startup. You make sacrifices and I'd be lying if I said my marriage hasn't been strained at times mostly due to financial worries. It really comes down to this: “If you bring forth what is within you, what is within you will save you…
Wow, a quote from the Gnostic gospels. Very cool. Here is another:
His disciples questioned him and said to him, "Do you want us to fast? How shall we pray? Shall we give alms? What diet shall we observe?" Jesus said, "Do not tell lies, and do not do what you hate."
I've often thought of that when I was in work situations where I really did not want to be.
NO! You have already failed by the fact that you need to ask the question. If you need someone else to convince you to do a startup you are in the wrong game.
A fair point! Actually what I was attempting here was to try and question the thinking behind when we can and can't do things that we wish to do. I don't need anyone to convince me, I was trying to challenge the general perceptions of when you can start a start-up. I never think a question is a 'stupid question', and I also don't think asking a question is a failure.
I prefer to think in terms of "personal industry" rather than "startup." Personal industry used to be the normal case, with people building their own house, planting their own fields, and so on. I think it's rather odd and sad that so many of us get caught up in corporate life. I have more feelings about this, but am having trouble articulating them
Anyway, to answer the when?: Until I'm so old and decrepit that my children are taking care of me.
Probably. Don't know your situation, and I'm not 40 anyway, so take everything I say with a grain of salt. One thing I've noticed, having worked for startups with older founders: when you're over 35, it's to your advantage to start a different kind of company. When you're in your early 20s, it makes sense to swing for the fences with a new consumer idea that's wildly innovative and nobody really understands. That way…
Your 35 cutoff seems ridiculously arbitrary and ageist. If anything, more experience means more exposure to more ideas and thus gives you an advantage in coming up with something innovative. There is more cross-pollination. This is a function of time and effort and so only loosely correlated with age.
Would highly recommend you read Barry Moltz's: "You Need to be a Little Crazy": http://www.amazon.com/You-Need-Be-Little-Crazy/dp/079318018X... I'm 39.5 with 3 kids and working at my 3rd startup. You make sacrifices and I'd be lying if I said my marriage hasn't been strained at times mostly due to financial worries. It really comes down to this: “If you bring forth what is within you, what is within you will save you…
If you bring forth what is within you, what is within you will save you. If you do not bring forth what is within you, what is within you will destroy you. Wow, a quote from the Gnostic gospels. Very cool. Here is another: His disciples questioned him and said to him, "Do you want us to fast? How shall we pray? Shall we give alms? What diet shall we observe?" Jesus said, "Do not tell lies, and do not do what you hate…