|Kids are creative, middle age people are not.
In most fields(except the web) , most serious entrepreneurs are around 40.
Re:America Lacks Meaningful Innovation
by thorwed123 on Friday May 13, 2011 @04:20PM
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How dare you go against the Cannon of YC/TechCrunch
Everyone who is 30+ is an idiot.
People are smartest when they are in High school and progressively detoriate as they learn more
People are smartest when they're old, but they're also the most risk-averse when they're old.
60 year olds today are generally uninterested in creating the future. Their main concern is with their own health I find. The more active 60 year olds also seem to love playing with real estate, buying/selling/renovating.
It's very hard to get them to invest in some future technology which will change the world.
Exactly! Another very important reason, why the US is THE innovator in the world. Its the only industrial country with lots of young people.
“The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable man persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.” – George Bernard Shaw
Get a traditional job on your youth and wait to have a family to sustain and not being able to take risks. That is the definition of killing innovation and creativity. Kids are creative, middle age people are not. Kids can think out of the box, adults are "inside the box".