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What is the average startup entrepreneur age? ie your age (I am 26 almost)
- aaroneous 19y agoI'm 24, my biz partner just turned 32.
- blored 19y ago23 and 25.
- rms 19y ago21 and 22
- run4yourlives 19y ago32
- Shooter 19y agoI'm also 32.
- vegashacker 19y ago29 and 29
- samson 19y ago22
- cstejerean 19y ago22
- portLAN 19y ago69
- rokhayakebe 19y agoSeriously?
- portLAN 19y ago"We used to have a joke in college, that the definition of a college man was somebody who couldn't count up to 70 without laughing." -- Don Knuth, after recommending a 69-bit processor design http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=3147833455273735180#17m50s http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=3147833455273735180#...
- DocSavage 19y ago43 and 43. (My first startup was at 31. My partner/wife's first startup was at 20.)
- gregp 19y ago22
- cellis 19y ago20
- gustaf 19y ago26 when we started, turned 27 in June
- gustaf 19y agorest of the team was 24, 24 and 26 when we started heysan
- chadboyda 19y ago28
- jamiequint 19y ago22
- kashif 19y ago26 and 27(me)
- motoko 19y ago23
- tyler 19y ago22
- andreyf 19y ago20
- chaostheory 19y ago29 and 30
- aarontait 19y ago19... Looks like I'm the youngest one... Suckers!
- mattculbreth 19y agoSucker? Who's drinking the Heineken? :)
- cellis 19y agoActually, what you should have asked is "Who can get into a bar or club", since I can get alcohol any day of the week, if I wanted to :)
- pc 19y agoThose of us not governed by inane US laws?
- cellis 19y agoheh. Sometimes I wish. i mean, since i was 18 (and was in college) I've known kids 21 and up....So if we wanted a six pack it was there. But only once did we ever get into a club, and I never was desperate enough to dish out $100 for a fake
- rms 19y agoIf I would have had the spare $1300 for the printers + magnetic strip reader/writer plus an oddly calibrated internal risk calculus I would have really been in business.
- rms 19y agoYou've also gotta draw the ID and holograms yourself in photoshop, pixel for pixel. That's gotta be a dozen hours for each ID.
- far33d 19y agoI have a friend who almost got a felony conviction b/c of fake ids. But that was the 80s. These days, I don't think you'd get a plea.. identity crime is a way bigger deal.
- rbitar 19y ago26
- pg 19y agoThe avg for the last YC batch was 24.5. Range: 19 to 35.
- DocSavage 19y agoDo you have the range for applicants?
- pg 19y agoIt's huge. Roughly 12 to 80.
- curi 19y ago24.5 mean or median?
- pg 19y agomean
- aswanson 19y agoI know the sample size is small, but how did the +30 people compare to their younger peers, in terms of productivity/execution, dealing with adversity, etc? Any noticeable difference in character due to age?
- pg 19y agoThe two main differences are that the older guys tend to be better presenters, and more tied down geographically.
- tipjoy 19y agoLots of talk about 'healthy white males' and 'guys' on news.yc tonight. I understand women are in the minority, but we do exist. Correction: I just re-checked the other post I was referring to and they said "healthy young male" not "healthy white male". My apologies for the misquote.
- nostrademons 19y ago24 and 26 (me).
- epi0Bauqu 19y ago28
- thejefe711 19y ago17
- pc 19y ago18
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- gibsonf1 19y ago41 (first startup (architecture) @ 30) & 33
- gibsonf1 19y agoBefore architecture: Victoria Bicycles (startup @ 17), Moondog BBS @17 (Used a commodore 64's random access floppy drive to create a dbase sytem), Business Design Consultants (Used an IBM PC w/ Watson soundcard and Dbase to create touch tone ordering system) @ 22
- mkull 19y ago24
- sanj 19y agoI think the better metric is age / (# of startups) in my case: 36/3 = 12
- nanijoe 19y agoSo how did those 3 startups work out?
- sanj 19y agoThe first was a group of college friends who wrote software for handhelds. It was really fun, and made enough to keep us above the grad student poverty line. We also always had nice(ish) computers. Given my low expectations, I count Scrawl as a success. It was (effectively) cannibalized to start PatientKeeper. We raised ~$70M in venture and our software is now in use at an amazing number of hospitals. Though it hasn't had (I love this euphemism) liquidity event, I count it as a success. We employ ~90 people and touch thousands of physicans and hundreds of thousands of lives. At the risk of being a tease, I'm not ready to talk about the third.
- run4yourlives 19y ago>We employ ~90 people and touch thousands of physicians and hundreds of thousands of lives. Only in startup land would you have to justify that as a "success" by inserting the "although it hasn't had a liquidity event". Congrats on creating what seems to be a healthy business!
- redrory 19y ago19
- david 19y ago17
- jkush 19y ago29 (but 30 5 weeks from now).
- falsestprophet 19y ago20
- bsaunder 19y ago36
- daniel-cussen 19y ago19. Started the nerd club at 18.
- ranparas 19y agoWhile you guys talk about age, i'm going to continue my focus on my end goals !
- euccastro 19y agoGodspeed and good luck! (Alas, you're still 76 keystrokes behind the guys who took 2 to state their age.) P.S.: 32
- mtbnnet 19y agoAny body working on this longterm new market? From http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/3576594.stm http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/3576594.stm .......The Austrian team encoded their qubits using a property of light particles, also called photons, known as polarisation. This property describes the direction in which they oscillate. Quantum teleportation relies on an aspect of physics known as "entanglement", whereby the properties of two particles can be tied together even when they are far apart. Einstein called it "spooky action at a distance".
- cellis 19y agoNah, but I would work on WiTricity if I could.
- PStamatiou 19y ago21
- trekker7 19y agoThis post is crying out for a bar graph based poll.
- dexter 19y ago20
- yrashk 19y agoalmost 26
- mytix 19y ago20
- elad 19y ago31. My first startup was at 22 though.
- thomasswift 19y ago26
- vuknje 19y ago26
- wouter 19y agoI'm 23!
- Leon 19y agoAs am I!
- edu 19y ago23
- dottertrotter 19y ago25
- rwebb 19y ago28
- psb 19y ago39 and trying to get my first startup done before 40
- dcurtis 19y ago20