I disagree on all counts. You're making generalities that can be falsified. And no one has done the homework to figure out what's really going on.
It is possible for an older entrepreneur to not have the kind of funding you're suggesting. I'm one.
It is possible that an older entrepreneur had the kind of career that didn't encourage the development of a network of connections useful for building a business. This is (mostly) also true for me.
I count myself lucky - I'm part of an incredible program that provides me with a basic living expense (my wife makes up the rest), and access to advisors, lawyers, bookkeepers, marketers, sales people and negotiators to teach me the knowledge and skills that I lack. I could not have gotten this far on my own.
But the point I was making is that there seems to be such a focus on getting young people (what's next? high school grads?) that there's a much richer, more experienced field of opportunity being ignored.
everyone is diffent, there are people all over all sorts of these spectrums
also I too have experienced annoyance at marketing targeted at a population I'm not a member of
that said, if you simply look at it from a "who is it easy to add value too?" perspective
the younger you skew these things, the easier it is to add value
or inversely, the older you skew, the harder it is to add value
you have diminishing returns to covering a few months living expenses and bring in a group of contacts
that represents a good (deal/value add) for virtually all 22(?) year olds, the older you make your target, the increasing smaller percentage of people for whom that represents a good (deal/value add)
It is possible for an older entrepreneur to not have the kind of funding you're suggesting. I'm one.
It is possible that an older entrepreneur had the kind of career that didn't encourage the development of a network of connections useful for building a business. This is (mostly) also true for me.
I count myself lucky - I'm part of an incredible program that provides me with a basic living expense (my wife makes up the rest), and access to advisors, lawyers, bookkeepers, marketers, sales people and negotiators to teach me the knowledge and skills that I lack. I could not have gotten this far on my own.
But the point I was making is that there seems to be such a focus on getting young people (what's next? high school grads?) that there's a much richer, more experienced field of opportunity being ignored.
Or at least underreported on HN :-)