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Is Startup Weekend missing a middle-aged trick?
Is Startup Weekend missing a middle-aged trick?
href="#a"> By Peter Kerr for sticK
(sticK - 12 May 2015 ) As one of many simultaneous events taking place around the world, the Wellington Startup Weekend took place on April 10 – 12 at Creative HQ.
Now one of the purposes of the weekend event is not necessarily to create new businesses, but as much to develop a greater awareness among its (mostly young) participants of what is required to foster a successful enterprise.
That Startup Weekend is
mostly young people isn't surprising – they're often
unencumbered, single, only supporting themselves.
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