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Older women are the new face of entrepreneurship

Written by Fi Bendall | 31-Aug-2017 23:00:00

There’s a new force emerging in the business world that not many people are talking about yet, but I think will be on the radar pretty soon: women who have paid their dues in the corporate world and at the age of about 35 decide to strike out on their own and start a business.

This is a cohort of educated, motivated, and very business savvy people who have seen many of their ambitions dashed by banging their heads on the corporate glass ceiling long enough. Instead, they have grasped the opportunity to become entrepreneurs, defying some of the more common stereotypes we see in the media about what an entrepreneur should look like.