Portrait of the Entrepreneur as an Old Man

The canonical case is Ray Kroc, who took over and ran a small company called McDonalds at age 52:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_Kroc

I think the reason many entrepreneurs are young is not so much that young people have inherently better ideas as that young people are in a better position to take some risk. That is why a good fraction of companies that are started by older people seem to be started by older people that already have money in the bank: they, too, are in a position to take some risk.

I agree completely. How much talent would be wasted because people believed someone who told them they couldn't do something? Does Steve Blank think institutional knowledge, business savvy, world experience, etc. count for nothing? There are other ways to achieve your goals besides being willing to kip up on someone's sofa.

A question about Watchparty: isn't the trend for people to be not watching the same show at the same time? I mean, I can see networks desperate to stop this trend so I could see how some established network might want to acquire you. And that's not a bad plan but I'm not sure if that is going to reverse the trend.

I mean, if anything gets people watching at the same time it will be social interaction. I just don't know if it will be enough? Or do you have some way to connect people who are viewing asynchronously? If so, I'd love that personally. I do often want to share with other people but I never watch when originally aired. Somehow connecting me with everyone else sounds great except for the fact that at that point you're pretty much talking about a forum at that point and there's plenty of those.

Its no surprise that people in our society spend so much time dealing with the fear of old age.

But the truth is that you grow old when you lose interest in life, when you cease to dream, to hunger for new truths, and to search for new worlds to conquer, and this can happen at any age.

But when your mind is open to new ideas, new interests, and when you raise the curtain and let in the sunshine and inspiration of new truths of life and the universe, you will be forever young and vital at any age.

Live life with a child-like imagination no matter how old you are. Just don't be child-ish.

Ageism (in either direction) is like other forms of bigotry. It tells you nothing about any particular individual. It might be time for old rocker, Neal Young to bring out a song, "Young Man, take a look at your life. I'm a lot like you'll be."

Sometimes it takes experience to come across a problem that needs a solution. It's hard to come up with an answer until you fully understand the problem.

I agree completely. When does this "entrepreneurship" era end that young people are ostensibly good at, and what does it become that would account for the fact that most successful companies are not currently being ran by 20-somethings?

hell yeah!