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Boomers are Driving a New Entrepreneurship Boom

Startup Professionals Musings

In the Kauffman Foundation Survey of nearly 5,000 companies that began in 2004, nearly two-thirds of the founders are now between the ages of 35 and 54. The number of Facebook users in the US aged 55 and older grew from around 1 million in early 2009 to 10 million in early 2010. These trends seem likely to persist.

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Your Next Startup Will Likely Be Run By a Boomer

Startup Professionals Musings

In the Kauffman Foundation Survey of nearly 5,000 companies that began in 2004, nearly two-thirds of the founders are now between the ages of 35 and 54. The immigrant rate of entrepreneurial activity declined slightly in 2009, but remained substantially higher than the native-born rate. These trends seem likely to persist.

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Google Cleaning Out Their Closets

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Current users of the service should not worry as Google promises continued technical support until their contracts expire and advice on which service to take up. It’s now outdated, so we’re turning off Chatback and encouraging websites to use the Meebo bar , from an instant message company recently acquired by Google.

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The social Web in 2010: The emerging standards and technologies to watch

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All of these approaches made major headway in 2009 and are poised for mainstream use in 2010. Sponsored White Papers, Webcasts, and Downloads Finally, an easier way for Small and Mid-Sized Companies to Run Their Business Applications: IBM Smart Business IBM From the PC to the Internet to every piece of hardware and software in.

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