by Pete Kennedy
The stereotype is that kids and young adults are tech savvy, while the rest of us have a lot to learn.
In my own life, I’ve found that to be true sometimes—and not so true others. For example, I know kids who are whizzes with electronics. I also know teens and young adults who couldn’t navigate the most simple electronic devices if their lives depended on it.
I thought about that the other day while reading a Newsweek article. A researcher has found that high-tech businesses often are started by older men and women.
According to the article: “As it turns out, the average founder of a high-tech startup isn’t a whiz-kid graduate, but a mature 40-year-old engineer or business type with a spouse and kids who simply got tired of working for others, says Duke University scholar Vivek Wadhwa, who studied 549 successful technology ventures. What’s more, older entrepreneurs have higher success rates when they start companies.”
It goes to show, once again, that our perceptions aren’t always reality.
