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How Old Should You Be to Start Your Business?

Posted by: Posted date: June 08, 2010 In: Personal | comment : 0

The “Age” factor can be a stumbling stone in many businesses while climbing the career lather. But technology/online companies where mostly created when their founders were in their twenties. So don’t consider age when searching for your specialist:

Bill Gates: Age 20 when he founded Microsoft

Steve Jobs: Age 21 when he founded Apple

Mark Zuckerberg: Age 20 when he founded Facebook

Sergey Brin (25) and Lawrence Page (25) when they founded Google

Steve Chen (27), Chad Hurley (29) and Jawed Karim (21) when they founded YouTube

David Filo (29) and Jerry Yang (27) when they founded Yahoo!

Matt Mullenweg: Age 20 when he founded WordPress

Shawn Fanning: Age 18 when he founded Napster

Pete Cashmore: 20 when he founded mashable

Andrej Ternowski: Age 17 when he founded chatroulette

Kevin Rose: Age 27 when he founded Digg

Sean Parker: Age 20 when he co-founded Napster

Jack Dorsey: 29 when he founded Twitter

Thomas Andersen: Age 33 when he founded MySpace

(All ages by Wikipedia)

About The Author

Daniel studied Media- and Communication Science (B.A.) and European Business (M.A.) at the University of Fribourg. He is founder of Switzerland's largest skiing community and project manager at duckstance.com. As freelancer he advises companies in their social media activities, develops new websites, Facebook applications, iPhone Apps and tailor made branding strategies.Daniel studied Media- and Communication Science (B.A.) and European Business (M.A.) at the University of Fribourg. He is founder of Switzerland's largest skiing community and project manager at duckstance.com. As freelancer he advises companies in their social media activities, develops new websites, Facebook applications, iPhone Apps and tailor made branding strategies.

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