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> Nearly 70 percent were married when they became entrepreneurs, and nearly 60 percent had at least one child, challenging the stereotype of the entrepreneuria

• personlurking 14y ago
  > challenging the stereotype of the entrepreneurial workaholic with no time for a family. Researcher's personal bias? Someone can have a family and yet have no time for them.
• hooande 14y ago
  "Although only 51 percent of American adults are currently married, 72 percent have been married at least once." [1] Tricky number. Roughly three out of four of people get married, but as we know half of those marriages end in divorce. The number of entrepreneurial americans is "somewhere in there" (within +-1 std) so I think it's safe to call it a push. About 0.34% of people start businesses, a small enough sample that it's hard to draw any sweeping conclusions [2]. It's probably safe to say that starting a business doesn't have a serious impact on the prior or posterior probability of marriage. [1] http://www.livescience.com/17462-record-number-americans-unmarried.html http://www.livescience.com/17462-record-number-americans-unm... [2] http://www.inc.com/news/articles/201103/entrepreneurial-rate-highest-in-15-years.html http://www.inc.com/news/articles/201103/entrepreneurial-rate...
  • flyinRyan 14y ago
    > but as we know half of those marriages end in divorce. I'm not sure that's true actually. My feeling is that there are "serial divorces" who have 5+ failed marriages and drive the numbers way up.