Ha – my wife told me the other day that at 37 I need to change my bio (which reads Justin is one of Australia’s leading young…) I refuse!

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your only as young as the woman (or man) you feel. if that is the case then i’m ageless but open to offers.

jokes aside! for an entreprenuer (under or older than 30) to ensure that they get a broad perspective for healthy debate, I’d say they’d need to have people around them with contrasting experience and talents.

i.e. someone younger should have access to people who have been there done that. likewise older entreprenuers will network with people that see through less traditional eyes.

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I turned 30 a few months ago and yipee – about then business went through the roof. Maybe there is something in that

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Thank you for realising we still have a place in the world of business.

Being in your 12% category – we didn’t have the opportunity to do what we do now, when we were in our 20′s. The world was a different place back then. (not bad, not good – just different)

The wisdom that comes with maturity (and age) has shown us the mistakes that ‘our generation’ have made. We now have the time, the patience and the opportunity to make some corrections.

It’s the risk we take – that’s why we’re called entrepreneurs!

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Good stuff James. I was 53 when I rolled the dice…and it worked back in 1997. I agree age is not the issue. If you have the courage of your convictions and back your self, then just do it! ….no caveats, right!

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I say get in as soon as you can, and stay in for as long as you can. So if that rings a bell for you because you are in your 20′s then great. I believe you need time in the trenches of entrepreneurship to learn the lessons necessary.

That having been said, someone who is managing their risk can do it later in life, and in many cases better, more professionally and with some perspective on any successes and failures.

At the end of the day it’s up to you even in the twilight years (remember Col Sanders), its about having a sense of purpose and intent relevant to your own opportunity and how passionate you feel about going forward with it.

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Well I am certainly in the 12% segment & am now involved in my 4th business venture since I started my first at 33. The main thing is to ‘do the time’ as someone said ‘in the trenches’ which can mean a lot of blood, sweat & tears along the way with no absolute guarantees of success. There only a mythical few that achieve wealth with minimum effort much as the one-hit-wonders have done in the music industry over the years.

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You go up a lot of dry gullies before you find water…

Or to put it another way: before Edison found out how a lightbulb worked, he found a lot of ways it didn’t work.

Pushing 40, but still finding out how ‘it’ doesn’t work…

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