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Starting a Small Business over 50 years old

Sean P. Durham
11 min readSep 23, 2018

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Are you too old to begin a New Venture?

Starting out with a new idea in business — becoming an entrepreneur at 50 plus of age, can seem like a wild ass idea to some baby-Boomers. But Steve Siebold, the author of “How Rich People Think”, has a different take on being older, wiser and ready for the challenges of making it as a 50 plus entrepreneur.

A Life of Experience is Gold Worth

According to Steve Siebold, once you hit the big 5–0, you have a wealth of knowledge that the younger generations just don’t, and can’t possess. Life is a great teacher. Life serves up its ups & downs so that we are faced with hardships, tough times and happy times, again and again life teaches us how to live life, what we can expect, and it teaches us the importance of persistence and tenacity in living life and getting what we want. Steve Siebold interviewed well over 1200 successful people to get to the heart of the matter — what makes them successful in their endeavours as sales people and business people.

How to Develop Experience into Ideas

He’s convinced that if you have an idea that offers value and use to other people and you focus on delivering that idea to the right people, people who need it, then you will be…

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