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Boomers Back in Business - Vote For Your Favorite

by Jean on August 21st, 2008

If you want some great ideas for businesses you can start as a Baby Boomer, or you just want to see what some other baby boomers are doing,  check out StartupNation’s list/contest of “Boomers Back in Business.”  Each business is profiled and you can vote for your favorite.

StartupNational also has a list of last year’s winners.  Several of these businesses were interesting.  For example:

  • Last year’s winner was a guy who started a fishing business around the Ozarks in Missouri.  Great idea!  My husband’s cousin’s husband (got that?) has a similar business.  He writes for fishing magazines.  Best part about what he does is that he gets things like boats, fishing lures, rods, from manufacturers.
  • Another boomer is in the office space business all around the country, with his company OfficeFinder.  I haven’t figured out how he does it, but he has a cool website with lots of good calculators and a checklist for setting up your office.
  • Number 10 was a guy who had a tour service in Maine.  He takes people around in his car seeing the sights around Portland.

What I liked about these businesses was that they are practical, down-to-earth types of businesses that any baby boomer could start, rather than the high-tech stuff that you see in the big magazines like Entrepreneur and Inc.  They are businesses that I might be interested in and able to start.  If you get a good idea from reading about one of these businesses, let me know.

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