Age Is No Barrier for Entrepreneurial Spirit ; Enterprise Businessmen Set Out to Challenge Notion of Youthful 'Go- Getters' in Association with Www.Rbs.Co.Uk

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One of Britain's most successful entrepreneurs sails across the Atlantic, abseils down Las Vegas skyscrapers, and attempts to circumnavigate the globe in a hot air balloon - while running a pounds 3billion businessempire. But he is no freshfaced 20-year- old.

For Richard Branson, his 58 years are an advantage on younger entrepreneurs, giving him wily life skills and an understanding of the world that an 18-year-old would struggle to match.

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Age Is No Barrier for Entrepreneurial Spirit ; Enterprise Businessmen Set Out to Challenge Notion of Youthful 'Go- Getters' in Association with Www.Rbs.Co.Uk

Experts point out the need to harness the skills of "olderpreneurs".

Indeed, most of our country's finest entrepreneurs are over 50: Bernie Eccleston, 77; Sir Alan Sugar, 61: Duncan Bannatyne, 59, and Sir Philip Green, 56.

Yet there is still a widespread feeling that entrepreneurial spirit is synonymous with youth.And this is something...

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