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07 Mar 2010 11:54

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Biz: Unemployed boomers tired of being bored, start businesses

  • 36 number of weeks the average unemployed person over 55 has been out of work
  • 52% the growth in newly self-employed people between ages 55 and 64; beats sitting on the couch source

25 May 2009 18:42

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Biz, Offbeat: We appreciate this entrepreneur’s sentiment if not his product

  • I don’t think people realize how much you have to go through. They think, ‘I have a great idea and I’m going to make a lot of money off it.’ If you have a great idea, that’s only 5 percent of it.
  • Entrepreneur Robert Stribling • Who’s talking about a new style of juice straws that doesn’t leak all over you if you put it in too fast. He’s spent millions of dollars in research and development but has no takers for his snake oil. • source