How can Ageless Startup do the most good right now

I keep threatening to restart this blog. Time to try again.

Ageless Startup: Start a Business at Any Age was written entirely before AI. The book, and every article that followed, is my work. I’m proud of that. And I learned a new trade by doing it.

The book was launched within days of the pandemic being declared. Now we have AI to contend with. Here is an updated description of where I think Ageless Startup can do the most good now:

Ageless Startup helps people turn a lifetime of experience into small, one person businesses. It shows that starting a new enterprise later in life can be a strategic advantage, using wisdom and modern tools to create meaningful, resilient work and a renewed sense of purpose and independence.


"The best way to make a hit is to build something for the smallest viable audience and make it so good that people tell their peers." - Seth Godin

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