Ageless Startup / CAE - reviews, interviews, podcasts, and articles - during the pandemic

I am using this post to gather media links since the book was published. This is a sample of reviews, interviews, podcasts, and articles - during the pandemic

Ageless Startup: Start a Business at Any Age.
Rick Terrien
Entrepreneur Press. April 2020. www.ageless-startup.com

The Center for Ageless Entrepreneurs
A peer-to-peer network for experienced entrepreneurs.
Business driven. Non-profit managed.
Co-founder. Executive Director.
www.agelessentrepreneurs.org

REVIEWS:

Carl Schramm, former president of the Kauffman Foundation:

"Entrepreneurship provides an exciting new career for millions of older Americans, one they would never have anticipated growing up in a world that presumed people’s work life would end at 65. Rick Terrien has provided a fabulous roadmap on how to approach this new chapter in life. His brilliant 'Ageless Startup' is a handbook for how to shape your future so your most rewarding work lies ahead — work that benefits you and makes a difference in the lives of countless others. A must for career planning for anyone over forty!”

Carl Schramm, former president of the Kauffman Foundation, author of Burn the Business Plan, serial entrepreneur, active venture investor, and University Professor at Syracuse.

AARP:
“The book provides a roadmap to kick starting an entrepreneurial journey at any age. It offers tips and insight into entrepreneurship and contains interviews with past Purpose Prize Winners and Fellows. The book embodies the core mission of the Purpose Prize."

"Rick Terrien is a 2015 Purpose Prize Fellow and an entrepreneur repeatedly recognized for innovation excellence. He spent his career building creative business solutions to address societal problems. He received the 'Fast 50 Award' from Fast Company, the United States Small Business New Product of the Year Award. And now, he can add ‘author’ to his list of accomplishments."

Media: Podcasts, articles, and interviews

Upcoming:

Dec, 2021 Book Chapter: Models for Regenerative Sustainability - Rick Terrien. Starting Up Smarter: Why Founders Over 50 Build Better Companies Dr. Mary Cronin, Boston College

Dec 3, 2021 Podcast interview – Grow Money - Business Podcast

Dec 9, 2021 Presentation – Stanford Longevity Center Annual Century Summit: Ageless Entrepreneurship in New Economy, Stanford University

Dec 17, 2021 Podcast interview – All About You. (Valencia, Spain)

Not yet published:

Nov 29, ,2021 Podcast interview – No Labels.

Published:

Nov 18, 2021 Live interview – The Pirate Syndicate: Ageless Startup – Rick Terrien Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z-yb3Jh9Sjs Audio: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/catch-rick-terrien-on-the-piratebroadcast/id1488373670?i=1000542358315

Oct 21, 2021 Human Capital Innovations: Why the Narrative about Older Workers Is Upside Down with Rick Terrien. video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lL36Aw1-0I4

Oct 26, 2021 Embark on Your Third Act: Ageless Startup – Rick Terrien Audio: https://lizsolar.com/embark-podcast/ Scroll to Fall 2021. My interview starts ~ 11:20

Oct 14, 2021 Third Act Quest – Live Storytelling: Ageless Startup – Rick Terrien Not yet posted

Oct 7, 2021 Interstellar Business Show – The Enormous Overlooked Talent Pool: Talent Opportunity of Biz Veterans – Rick Terrien --- Podcast: https://interstellarway.life/podcast/0016-talent-shortage-undervalued-biz-veterans-solution/

Sept 28, 2021 ValueVerse: Start Your Real Career – Ageless Startup – Rick Terrien Podcast: https://valueverse.podbean.com/e/start-your-real-dream/

July 20, 2021 Clarity and Purpose: Your Entrepreneurial Journey at Any Age – Rick Terrien Podcast: https://bit.ly/2UQhZix

June 25, 2021 Coffee, Lunch, Beer: The Ageless Entrepreneur – Rick Terrien Podcast: https://anchor.fm/coffeelunchbeer/episodes/The-Ageless-Entrepreneur---Rick-Terrien-e13e05v

June 21, 2021 Entrepreneurs Over 40 – Rick Terrien Podcast: https://entreprenuersover40.podbean.com/e/entrepreneurs-over-40-episode-6-with-rick-terrien/

June 4, 2021 Money On My Mind: Mastering The Ageless Startup with Rick Terrien (Muscat, Oman) Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/in/podcast/mastering-ageless-startup-rick-terrien-money-on-my/id1534155222?i=1000524122645 Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/episode/5mbwUkjEEErnoeook25YVn

May 11, 2021 B++. Entrepreneurship with Abhii Dabas (Singapore) Podcast: Not yet posted

Apr 2, 2021 Kickass Boomers: Now Is Your Time to Take Action – Rick Terrien Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/episode/5mbwUkjEEErnoeook25YVn

Mar 26, 2021 Webinar presentation – Bloom. (Canada) Webinar: https://admin-at-hellobloomers.wistia.com/medias/ho9any4qkd

Feb 23, 2021 Webinar presentation – Founders Over 55 Webinar: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I_mZOpoUiEg&t=38s

Oct 12, 2020 Review – Skip Prichard. Ageless Startup: Start an enterprise that represents your values, your goals, and your legacy. Review: https://www.skipprichard.com/start-a-business-at-any-age/

Sept 18, 2021 Callum Connects: A peer-to-peer business development network for people in the second half of life. Podcast: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JIskIn83uGE

Aug 20, 2020 Exit Coach Radio: Exploring Entrepreneurship in the Second Half of Life with Rick Terrien Podcast: https://exitcoach.podbean.com/e/rick-terrien/

Aug 12, 2020 The Podcast with Cameron Tousi – Covid-19 to Decimate Employment for 45 to 64 Year-Olds. Answer: Entrepreneurship – with Rick Terrien Podcast: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SjCj7k9UqGc

Aug 3, 2020 Unobatanium with Oz Kahn. How Do You Achieve A business Startup at Any Age? With Rick Terrien Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/rick-terrien-on-achieving-ageless-startup-entrepreneurship/id1508403348?i=1000486995836

July 19, 2020 Entrepreneur Magazine. Author CV at Entrepreneur. Link: https://www.entrepreneur.com/author/rick-terrien

July 16, 2020 Entrepreneur Magazine. Transitioning Older Workers Into New Opportunities Doesn't Have to Be Hard. Rick Terrien. Article: https://www.entrepreneur.com/article/352880

July 13, 2020 The Author Inside You: Working With a Professional Publisher – Rick Terrien. (Most downloaded interview of the year) Podcast: https://www.theauthorinsideyou.com/show-notes/working-with-a-professional-publisher

July 9, 2020 Entrepreneur Magazine. Older Entrepreneurs Should Embrace Working From Home. Rick Terrien. Article: https://www.entrepreneur.com/article/352936

June 23, 2020 CT Expert Insights. It’s Never Too Late to Start Your Business – Rick Terrien Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/episode/6hawbj4MT0UwKO2LY4XKEc

June 2020 Inc. Magazine. Why Now Is the Time to Have a Second Career as an Entrepreneur Article: https://www.inc.com/martin-zwilling/why-now-is-time-to-have-a-second-career-as-an-entrepreneur.html

June 12, 2020 School for Startups Radio – Ageless Startup: Start a Business at Any Age – Rick Terrien Podcast: https://schoolforstartupsradio.com/2020/06/start-business-at-any-age/ Audio: http://cdn1.cyberears.com/33957.mp3

June 4, 2012 Entrepreneur Magazine. Market Optimization Is the Way to Boost Your Late- Career Startup – Rick Terrien Article: https://www.entrepreneur.com/article/351365

May 29, 2020 Market Watch – This entrepreneur says you’re never too old to launch your own startup, even in this economy: How to bootstrap a new business in midlife or in retirement – even in a pandemic. Article: https://www.marketwatch.com/story/this-entrepreneur-says-youre-never-too-old-to-launch-your-own-startup-even-in-this-economy-2020-05-28

May 27, 2020 Strategy Driven: Older Workers – An Opportunity Created from Danger – Rick Terrien Article: https://www.strategydriven.com/2020/05/27/older-workers-an-opportunity-created-from-danger/

May 27, 2020 Boomer Bloomer – Real Wisdom people can learn and earn by." "A visionary and award-winning writer." – Rick Terrien. Podcast: https://www.facebook.com/watch/live/?v=3224913821066079&ref=watch_permalink

May 26, 2020 Entrepreneur Magazine. It's Never Too Late: How to Start Your Own Business at Any Age – Rick Terrien Webinar: https://ageless-startup.blogspot.com/2020/05/ageless-startup-free-webinar-this.html

May 23, 2020 Entrepreneur Magazine. Older Workers Must Be Proactive About Their Future – Rick Terrien Article: https://www.entrepreneur.com/article/350825

May 20, 2020 Forbes. Advice For Ageless Startups, Even in A Pandemic. How to bootstrap a business in midlife or in retirement. – Rick Terrien. Article: https://www.forbes.com/sites/nextavenue/2020/05/20/advice-for-ageless-startups-even-in-a-pandemic/?sh=702731907b31

May 20, 2020 Next Avenue. People think it’s scary to start a business. In my opinion, it’s much scarier NOT to start your own business. Article: https://www.nextavenue.org/ageless-startups/

May 12, 2020 Succession Stories. Ageless Startup: Next generation Entrepreneurship Rick Terrien Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/05-ageless-startup-author-rick-terrien/id1507050698?i=1000474319361

May 12, 2020 The Feed (Canada) – Ageless Startup: Start a Business at Any Age – Rick Terrien. Podcast: https://ambermac.com/thefeed-nasa-virtual-hackathon-ageless-startup-contact-tracing-apps/

May 11, 2020 Live radio Interview – Mary Jane Pop. KAHI Radio, Sacramento, CA – Rick Terrien. Interview: https://ageless-startup.blogspot.com/2020/05/interview-monday-may-11-poppoff-with.html

May 5, 2020 Live radio Interview – Doug Wagner. WMT Radio. Cedar Rapids, IA. Interview: https://ageless-startup.blogspot.com/2020/05/radio-interview-with-wmt-in-cedar.html

April 30, 2020 Entrepreneur Magazine. The 3-Step Strategy to Help You Determine Your Business Mission, Values, and Goals. Rick Terrien. Article: https://www.entrepreneur.com/article/347161

April 16, 2020 Entrepreneur Magazine. The 2 Systems You Need to Set Up for Startup Success. One involves people; the other, finances. But both are essential to run your business effectively. Rick Terrien. Article: https://www.entrepreneur.com/article/347159

April 9, 2020 Entrepreneur Magazine. Laying the Groundwork for Your Ageless Startup. Find out what first steps you need to take to maximize potential. Rick Terrien Article: https://www.entrepreneur.com/article/347158

April 2, 2020 Entrepreneur Magazine. Starting a Business That People Need. Businesses succeed by solving real problems. Here's how to determine what problems you can solve to make your new business a success. Rick Terrien. Article: https://www.entrepreneur.com/article/347157

Mar 26, 2020 Entrepreneur Magazine. 26 Questions to Help You Decide If a Late-in-Life Business Is Right for You. Rick Terrien Article: https://www.entrepreneur.com/article/346439

Mar 21 2020 Association Now – Running a New Organization? Take it Slow. – Ageless Startup: Start a Business at Any Age. Article: https://associationsnow.com/2020/03/daily-buzz-running-a-new-organization-take-it-slow/?fbclid=IwAR2sXPxPJjfDCSD-FS9lbCPTazH4kLF6ZV8iYIZ9Pr7AXxyw2DKaAgocXD4

Mar 19, 2020 Interview with EntreEd: The National Consortium for Entrepreneurship Education: Starting a Business at Any Age – Rick Terrien Interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-b4df4bzEZg

Mar 12, 2020 Entrepreneur Magazine. The 3-Step Startup Journey. Get each of these steps right, and you just might have a successful business on your hands. Rick Terrien. Article: https://www.entrepreneur.com/article/346438

Connecting to the Center for Ageless Entrepreneurs / CAE

 

I'm helping launch the Center for Ageless Entrepreneurs / CAE, with my cofounder Dr. John Golden. 

The mission of the CAE is to support entrepreneurs in the second half of life.  We are business driven and nonprofit managed.  Our model is peer-to-peer.  

We are just opening up.   I'm looking forward to what we can build together.  

Reconnecting SustainableWork

Greetings once again. 

What a vital time to apply sustainable work to the problems in the world.

Since  I last posted, my book was published.   

The book is called Ageless Startup.  Start a Business at Any Age.  I'll link the book at the end.  It earned some wonderful testimonials.  Interviews with other ageless entrepreneurs throughout the book inspire me.  I got to focus on big picture ideas as well as including 'to do' lists.  I had a great editor and publisher.

This book emerged directly from this blog.  

I'm very proud of this book.  It was released in April of 2020 - just as the pandemic emerged globally. 

I've also helped co-found the Center for Ageless Entrepreneurs, a 5001c3 non-profit building the infrastructure ageless entrepreneurs need to grow.  I'll save that for a separate post.

April 2022 will be the 17th anniversary of this SustainableWork blog. 

I'm looking forward to posting here as time allows.  Let's see what comes next!

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Web site for Ageless Startup.  Start a Business at Any Age   

Amazon site for Ageless Startup.

Our new Center for Ageless Entrepreneurs

-- Rick Terrien, 12-2021

Silicon Valley's ideal entrepreneur is about 20 years too young, research shows

There is a powerful new study about entrepreneurship with great implications for the economy and those of us in the second half of life.

"A new study found the average founder of the fastest growing tech startups was about 45-years-old — and 50-year-old entrepreneurs were about twice as likely to have a runaway business success as their 30-year-old counterparts."

"The new study by Jones, Javier Miranda of the U.S. Census Bureau and MIT's Pierre Azoulay and J. Daniel Kim, looked at an expansive dataset and found the most successful entrepreneurs are middle-aged.

"Take David Duffield, who founded Workday in 2005 at the ripe age of 65.  Workday went public in 2012 and today has a $26.47 billion market cap.  Whereas younger founders may benefit from their creative thinking and lesser degree of entrenchment in an industry, the exact opposite qualities work to the benefit of their older counterparts."

"Older entrepreneurs have had years to build their business, leadership, and problem-solving skills, as well as to accumulate the social and financial capital needed to get a startup off the ground. Jones also points out that even companies like Apple and Microsoft that were founded by exceptional young entrepreneurs didn't achieve their most rapid market capitalization growth until later, when their founders were older. The iPhone entered the market when Steve Jobs was in his 50s"

There are almost endless opportunities for older entrepreneurs to meet business and community challenges with innovative entrepreneurial solutions.  Take hold of this option.  Give yourself permission to explore, then plan, then take action.  The world needs you, and the challenge will make you stronger.


Link the CNBC article quoted above

Endeavor. To exert oneself. To strive.

Endeavor is an old word with great possibilities.

Its current meaning as a verb means 'to exert oneself to do or effect something; make an effort; strive'.  As a noun in means 'a strenuous effort; attempt.'

When you are starting a new enterprise, you are launching an endeavor.  You are making an effort.  You are striving.

If you are looking for permission to consider entrepreneurship, if you are looking to plan or to expand your own business, don't look for external rewards.

Look to yourself.  Strive to do change the world in small and large ways.  Increase your focus.  Do the little things with meaning and effort.  There is no better path to making progress.

Endeavor. Strive. You'll build the strengths you need as you go forward.

Tom Waits quote. Explaining about not having a 'normal' job.

If you think you need to follow a prescribed career path, you've missed the train.  The world no longer works like that.

As this blog shifts over to writing with intention about the opportunities for those of us in the second half of life, it is especially relevant that we give up fixed expectations.  We need to go with what we have.  We need to make opportunities out of every hand we've been dealt.

So, a parable from Tom Waits.  Consider this when you are choosing options that don't fit molds that other people want to put you in...

Tom Waits:

My kids are starting to notice I'm a little different from the other dads.  'Why don't you have a straight job like everybody else?' they asked me the other day.

I told them this story:

"In the forest, there was a crooked tree and a straight tree.  Every day, the straight tree would say to the crooked tree, "Look at me... I'm straight, and I'm tall, and I'm handsome.  Look at you... You're all crooked and bent over.  No one wants to look at you!  And they grew up in that forest together.  And then one day the loggers came, and they saw the crooked tree and the straight tree, and they said just cut the straight trees and leave the rest.  So the loggers turned all the straight trees into lumber and toothpicks and paper.  And the crooked tree is still there, growing strong and stranger!"

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Today is the 13th anniversary of this Sustainable Work blog.  Growing stronger and stranger.  Thanks to all the great visitors over the years.  I look forward to sharing many more with you all.

Sustainable Work blog anniversary coming up. 13 years and growing!

The thirteenth anniversary of this Sustainable Work blog is coming up this week.

I've been neck deep in startup work for the last year or so.  It's time to catch up with the story and the goals I set up at the start of all this.

This is a moment in history when we need a revolution in entrepreneurial thinking.  Major parts of the conversation about entrepreneurship have been taken over by big money and academics.  There is a place for all that, but it leaves out the thousands of years of history that real people have been motivated to fix a problem, and small enterprises grow out of their solutions.

People can act entrepreneurially within their existing gigs, and we can also begin to plan and launch small community-oriented enterprises to fix the broken stuff all around us.

I'm reposting the original blog post from Sustainable Work below.  Thirteen years this week and I still feel just as passionately about the work that needs to be done.

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Tuesday, April 12, 2005

What I'm trying to do

Hi;

I'm glad you've found you're way here. Welcome!

I've got this idea that I'd like to start a million more small, sustainable enterprises. However, I'm 50 something and I have a perfectly wonderful 90 hour a week job now. So I'm just going to have to talk about it here in my spare time. Hopefully I can help other people along this path. Can we get to a million new small enterprises? Come on along. Let's try. I look forward to sharing this site with you.

All the best,

Rick

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You can link to this original piece below:
http://blog.sustainablework.com/2005/04/what-im-trying-to-do.html

Opportunities in the midst of accelerating change

Everything is getting faster.

Everything is getting crazier.

Many people say that everything in our lives needs to get radically reordered to keep up.

I don't think so.  I think that old school values matter increasingly.

In 1965 Intel co-founder Gordon Moore published an idea that has become know over the decades as Moore's law  Moore extrapolated that computing would dramatically increase in power, and decrease in relative cost, at an exponential pace.  

You can't match wits with Moore's law.  We can stay ahead of it by leveraging the oldest of pass times - conversation, unexpected collaborations, and building networks.

This is a good quote from Thomas L. Friedman's new book 'Thank You for Being Late':

"If you took Intel's first-generation microchip from 1971, the 4004, and the latest chip that Intel has on the market today, the sixth-generation Intel core processor, you will see that Intel's latest chip offers 3,500 times more performance, is 90,000 times more efficient, and is about 60,000 times lower in cost.

To put it more vividly, Intel engineers did a rough calculation of what would happen had a 1971 Volkswagen Beetle improved at the same rate as microchips did under Moore's law.

These are the numbers:  Today, the Beetle would be able to go about three hundred thousand miles per hour.  It would get two million miles per gallon of gas, and it would cost four cents!"

Our computational skills haven't matched Moore's law exponential growth for decades.

However, for those willing to ride the bronco, our people skills can.  And we can do it through the oldest of mediums.  Conversations. A willingness to understand and consider.  A penchant for building new networks.

Are things getting faster?  Yes.

Are things getting crazier?  Only if you let them.



Thomas Friedman's book 'Thank You for Being Late'.

Moore's law

Eastern Screech Owl.  Wisconsin, late winter, 2017,

Persistence overcomes resistance.

Adam Steltzner led the Entry, Descent and Landing team in landing the Curiosity rover on the surface of Mars.

This quote is from his book, 'The Right Kind of Crazy', a great book about breakthrough innovation in the face of the impossible.

"There comes a moment in every creative or innovative process when you're not only lost; you're not even sure where to find a map.  Spending time in this Dark Room is terrifying, but there is no easy way out.  You have to stay calm, to hold on to the doubt, listen to the problem, and keep thinking of solutions while avoiding the mind-locking panic that you won't find one in time.  We were in the Dark Room and the only way out was persistence."

Persistence can overcome a lot of unknowns.  When you persist, the problems you need to know about show themselves, rather than waiting to grab you as you go by.  It's always best to meet problems on your own terms rather than waiting to wander into them unprepared.

Problem solving requires a strong heart, a calm demeanor, and diverse skills you can mix and match on the fly.  The problems you'll face typically get more daunting the closer you get to your goals.  This is especially true for innovators, artists and entrepreneurs.

As Steven Pressfield says so eloquently in the War of Art,  "The counterfeit innovator is wildly self-confident. The real one is scared to death."   

"That's a law of nature.  Where there is a Dream, there is Resistance.  Thus, when we encounter Resistance, somewhere nearby there is a Dream."

Adam Steltzner and his team delivered the Curiosity Rover to Mars with perfect landing almost 5 years ago.  Just prior they were stuck and terrified with no easy ways out.

We all face those moments.  Dreams are nearby.

Persistence overcomes resistance.  

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The Right Kind of Crazy.  Adam Steltzner

The War of Art.   Steven Pressfield

Purple Gallinule (photo).  Mauston, WI, 2017.

How We Dream Up Things That Change the World - Make the Tools That Fix the Problem

I'm reading a good book called 'INVENTology.  How We Dream Up Things That Change the World', by Pagan Kennedy.

Ms. Kennedy, former innovation columnist for the New York Times, advances the idea of a 'Lead User' and how people in that role - all of us looking to solve a problem - can infer world changing solutions no one has yet seen.

The term Lead User was first coined in the 1970s by economist Eric Von Hipple as a name for people who struggle with problems for which no off-the-shelf solution is available.  Along the way he became a Lead User himself, as the inventor of a solution people needed for a specific problem that few even recognized.   In the end there were many, and various problems his solution solved.

When Von Hippel later switched carreers and became a researcher he was struck by the question:  Who really dreams up breakthrough ideas?

First he identified about 100 scientific instruments that had made a significant impact and then dug in.  "He learned that about 80 percent of the scientific instrument products had begun with someone who needed the tool."

This is the lesson my engineer/inventor Dad taught me:  if you want to make a real impact you design the tool that makes the tool that makes the product.  That is, you get into the problem deeply enough to personally understand what's needed to make the tools that help solve those problems.

Here is the author's summary of this phase:  "Of course, only certain types of problems are valuable.  Ideally you would want to suffer from a frustration that is rare now (so that no one else knows about it) but that one day will bother lots of people.  'Lead Users are familiar with the conditions which lie in the future for most others', Von Hippel wrote, and so 'they can serve as a need-forecasting laboratory.'"

This is my take away.  The world has problems.  Our job is to understand what's needed next and invent tools to help get us through what's coming.

Seems about right.