Do you have a business plan or start-up venture that shows significant business potential in the market for baby boomers or seniors? Enter your business plan in the 2010 Silicon Valley Boomer Business Plan Competition, which awards a $10,000 grand prize for the best business plan and a $1,000 for the best elevator pitch. Finalists [...] [...more]
If you’re looking for a mid-life career switch or entrepreneurial opportunity, you should be consider serving the country’s growing population of older adults. Demographics dictate that aging will be a growth market for years to come–and there’s no better opportunity to learn about it than at the annual Aging in America conference, to be held [...] [...more]
Many older laid-off workers cling to the hope that they’ll find new jobs in their former line of work. It’s one of the most common errors of older job-seekers-and one of the most fatal. Rapid change makes it tough for laid-off workers to keep their skills fresh, and experience isn’t always valued as highly as [...] [...more]
Is entrepreneurship really a young person’s game? You’d think so reading David Leonhard’s column today in The New York Times. In an otherwise interesting piece about the Great Recession’s split personality, Leonhardt drops in this comment: “The reasons for the slow churn are obviously complex. The baby boomers are moving out of the ages at [...] [...more]
Some people start businesses later in life because they want to; others do it out of necessity after a job loss. Steve Vernon is among the fortunate ones who made the leap to entrepreneurship on his own. He took early retirement in 2006 from Watson Wyatt Worldwide, the employee benefits consulting firm, where he was [...] [...more]
