Excellent! With age comes wisdom and experience, usually.
Anyone who starts a business in a field where he or she has 10 more years of experience has a superior advantage. The contacts, the inner understanding of the trade and a track record.
With age, wine appreciates. The same can be said about wise people.
What if an opportunity springs up in an unfamiliar field and to make matters even worse, young age is a must?
Except for maybe professional sports such as the NBA and the army, it’s never too late to change directions in life. Besides, professional sports and the army are not entrepreneurial endeavors as they are professions.
But the age argument can be countered too.
How about a younger associate? A child? A grandchild? A nephew or niece? A promising young adult?
Being older may bring some negative baggage that wisdom and experience cannot counter. That’s where one or more young partner or adviser comes into play. Then, the partnership can boast having all the essential attributes, for being the yin and the yang and so forth.
Age is no excuse in starting a business.
But what if the opportunity really, really requires that the entrepreneur be young?
Well, it’s like the dating game back in the days.
There are more fishes in the sea.
There are probably more ideas floating around waiting to be spotted and turned into businesses by people who are paying attention instead of lamenting over their old age and missed opportunities.
Another issue is that at people advance in age, it’s more difficult to drop everything and start a business. The risk element is another excuse that will also be addressed.
Sorry. Senior age is no excuse. What’s the next excuse?
