If you ain’t done it by you 30’s, it ain’t gonna happen?
Fred Wilson, a New York VC recently wrote about the ages of company founders in his portfolio: most of them are under 30! I once heard Gerry Harvey say if you hadn’t made your mark by your 30’s, it just ain’t going to happen. Plenty of people have chimed in saying whaaaaaa!@#$! not true! Clay Shirky has weighed in with a good post saying but it is …
For me? I reckon we can control mindset - hard, but we can unlearn and take a fresh novice-like look at things. But hit your 30s, take on a mortgage, child, family - its tough to step back into a startup venture. And your peers are in the same boat. If you’re compelled to do it, you’ll do it any age, and quitting could be the best thing you’ve ever done - but if you’re looking for reasons not to, you’ll have less of them when you’re 25!