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Best Advice for Starting a Business After 50

  7 Generation Games designs and develops computer games to teach math to kids age 8 to 14, particularly Native American and Spanish-speaking students.  |  Credit: 7 Read More...

Category: Features

Author: Richard Eisenberg

What I Wish I Knew Before Starting a Business

Over the years, Noah Alper, 75, has started and run five businesses and a nonprofit school. Four of his ventures — including Noah's Bagels and the natural food and housewares chain Bread & Read More...

Category: Features

Author: Richard Eisenberg

The Advantages of Older Entrepreneurs

If you want to take a conversation in an interesting direction, ask a group of adults what they think is the most popular age for entrepreneurship. The typical answer in my experience is the younger Read More...

Category: Features

Author: Chris Farrell

Bicycle Enthusiast Realizes His Dream in Difficult Times

EDITORS NOTE: This first-person account of changing careers and starting a business is one in a series of eight first-hand stories shared by Next Avenue readers. The full collection is available Read More...

Category: Features

Author: Mark Stein

When Life Hands You Lemons, Start an Organic Lemonade Company

EDITOR'S NOTE: This first-person account of changing careers and starting a business is one in a series of eight stories shared by Next Avenue readers. The full collection is available here . By Lori Read More...

Category: Features

Author: Mark Stein

Bread Lover's Wheat Allergy Leads to a Second Career in Heritage Grains

Darrold and Martha Glanville EDITOR'S NOTE: This first-person account of changing careers and starting a business is one in a series of eight stories shared by Next Avenue readers. Read the entire Read More...

Category: Commentary

Author: Mark Stein

'We Will Create Together' is the Mantra for This Entrepreneur's Yarn Shop

At the age of 51, Russell Brent launched Balzac & Company, a successful yarn store in Ocean Grove, N.J. Like many other second act personalities, Brent found his inspiration by returning to an Read More...

Category: Features

Author: Andrew Levine

A New Entrepreneur Focuses on Staffing Plans

  Editor’s note: In this series, Next Avenue will follow Patricia Wynn as she embarks on becoming an entrepreneur with her North Carolina lifestyle assistant business. Future installments will Read More...

Category: Features

Author: Leslie Hunter-Gadsden

Marketing Strategies for a New Entrepreneur

Editor’s note: In this series, Next Avenue will follow Patricia Wynn as she embarks on becoming an entrepreneur with her North Carolina lifestyle assistant business. Future installments will note Read More...

Category: Features

Author: Leslie Hunter-Gadsden

How to Run Your Side Hustle Like the Business It Is

For Wendy Conklin, her Chair Whimsy company is now serious business  |  Credit: Courtesy of Wendy Conklin This article is part of America's Entrepreneurs , a Next Avenue Read More...

Category: Features

Author: Sharon Goldman