Am I too old to start again?

Am I too old to start again?

Not that I haven't been doing this for a while - Great Marketing Works has been working for 4 years now and before then I have had two other award winning businesses. BUT....

After having a child and after getting married (not in that order) can I really start again, at the ripe old age of thirty.... something (38)... .

This is what the wonderfully wise Doug Richard (someone I have worked for) has to say about it....

"You absolutely can teach an old dog new tricks. Anything to the contrary is nonsense. There'll always be those who point to age as a reason not to try something new, but this is terrible advice. When the entrepreneurial bug bites, age should be no barrier.

Some people suggest that entrepreneurs are marked out for success from birth. Entrepreneurs are often portrayed as youthful go-getters, full of the drive and enthusiasm that's necessary to weather the hardships that will undoubtedly be faced.

In a similar way, there seems to be a misplaced idea that owning and running a business is a privilege reserved for the select few born to do it. Wrong - with the right know-how, and support anyone can make a go of it.

Mature entrepreneurs often have an edge over their more youthful counterparts. Many find their age works to their advantage, allowing them to draw on the life skills, expertise and experience accumulated over the course of previous careers.

Of all the myths out there, one of the most infuriating is the suggestion that older people are risk-averse and reluctant to embrace new ideas. Not only is this offensive - it's not true.

Take Niklas Zennstromm. He was a 37-year-old tech-head who'd been sued after fronting file-sharing network Kazaa, before hitting it big. In 2005 he sold his former start-up for some $2.6bn. Then there's Evan Williams, who co-founded Twitter at the age of 35, not to mention Huffington Post founder Arianna Huffington, who was 54 when she set up in 2005."

So maybe after the blood moon of yesterday - now is a good time to start a new company. Still helping companies like Justaxi... but in a different way.