Looking at the United Kingdom’s startup ecosystem, it’s easy to form the impression that entrepreneurship – certainly in the arena of fast-growth, VC-backed businesses – is something of a young person’s game. Perhaps, to an extent, it is. Certainly, a disproportionate number of the founders that I speak to are under forty, a great many are in their twenties and a handful have yet to see their twenty-first birthdays.
You could argue that the relative youthfulness of the startup community reflects a willingness to take risks and pursue ideas before other pressures – such as bringing up children and meeting mortgage payments – begin to kick