The Kaufman Foundation published, some time ago, a great report by Dane Stangler, The Coming Entrepreneurship Boom (June 2009).
• In every single year from 1996 to 2007, Americans between the ages of 55 and 64 had a higher rate of entrepreneurial activity than those aged 20-34.
• For the entire period, the 55-64 group averaged a rate of entrepreneurial activity roughly one-third larger than their youngest counterparts.
• These trends seem likely to persist: in the Kauffman Firm Survey, a longitudinal survey of nearly 5,000 companies that began in 2004, two-thirds of firm founders are between the ages of 35 and 54.3
• Additionally, Kauffman research has revealed that the average age of the founders of technology companies in the United States is a surprisingly high 39— with twice as many over age 50 as under age 25.4”.
The punch line:
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