Age And The Entrepreneur
There is a new report out from my friends at the Kauffman Foundation on precisely this question: The age (and education) of U.S. tech entrepreneurs. What is the distribution? How is it changing?
Perhaps surprisingly, the report shows that U.S. tech entrepreneurs are, if anything, older than expected. People founding tech companies over the last ten years had an average and median age of 39-years, nowhere near the age that makes for good stories about dorm room entrepreneurs — and older than many of us might have thought.
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XLOR on May 7th, 2008 8:05 am
For the last years it is possible to see a very interesting tendency. Many pensioners become businessmen in Russia. Last year 96 year old businessman Sergey Podchaynikov won the thirs place in ceremony “The man of the year” in small and middle business. Fantastic.
I don’t know the exact age but I know that an average and median age of our entrepreneurs is 35-45.
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