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Age=experience, which is something a lot of investors are looking for. If you have a startup "itch" then scratch it.
I have friends who have been in the same situation and have not acted. They played safe, but there is always this nagging in their mind - what if I had done it? That does not go away.
Are you mad? Since when does age preclude anything. Age=experience, which is something a lot of investors are looking for. If you have a startup "itch" then scratch it. I have friends who have been in the same situation and have not acted. They played safe, but there is always this nagging in their mind - what if I had done it? That does not go away.
I've had three other attempts over the last 20 years, the first when I was 17/18. None of them really took off.
I've been sort of hoping this idea would go away (a sort of 'oh no, not again' feeling), but it won't!
Maybe this is the big one?
No, 38 is not too young. Sure, you'll get better as you get older, but there's no reason not to start now. If it's a software startup, you'll want a good codebase in place now before your kids get old enough to hack on it. P.S. You put "am I too old" in the title. You might be able to get one of the moderators to fix that typo.
dunno if lot of folks here have already read it.
read samuel-ullman's "youth" http://www.prmvr.otsu.shiga.jp/library/master/SamuelUllman/Y... dunno if lot of folks here have already read it.
I"m a YC start-up founder @ 39. I thought I was going to be the oldest, but there was another in the same cycle that had me beat by four months. It's not a matter of age, it's just a matter of managing commitments.
Cool. I always thought YC aims for kids in early 20s - with the $5k/mo model etc.. Are your co-founders also in their 30s?
The other 39 y/o from my cycle was part of a team of 30-somethings.
No, 38 is not too young. Sure, you'll get better as you get older, but there's no reason not to start now. If it's a software startup, you'll want a good codebase in place now before your kids get old enough to hack on it. P.S. You put "am I too old" in the title. You might be able to get one of the moderators to fix that typo.
(where is the typo?)