Article updated: 5/13/2013 9:27 AM

Senior entrepreneurs bring patience, experience to startups

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Jim Kendall

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Starting a business isn't just for the younger crowd. Thanks in part to lingering unemployment and to Baby Boomers needing to pad retirement accounts, 25 percent of those 65 and older are self-employed. Fifteen percent in the 50-64 age bracket are self-employed, too.