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I'm not sure if you mean it to, but something about that strikes me as derogatory toward 50-year-olds with landscaping companies. They are taking a big risk too
by csbrooks 17y ago
I'm not sure if you mean it to, but something about that strikes me as derogatory toward 50-year-olds with landscaping companies. They are taking a big risk too, and doing something important, even if it's not as sexy as a 20-year-old making a web startup.
(Or maybe it's just the older I get, the less enthralling the young, inexperienced founder appears to me?)
- pg 17y agoA landscaping company is structurally different from a startup. That kind of service business only scales linearly.
- encoderer 17y agoIf the comments on the linked page are to be believed, it's worse than your assumption: Apparently Kauffman only selected "small businesses" with at least $1MM annual sales and 50 employees. That excludes an awful lot of landscaping companies AND legitimate startups. My gut also says it skews a little towards older entrepreuners. Because it takes time grow to $1MM in sales, and I'd imagine that more young people found startups that fail than do 40 and 50 year olds.