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My journey as an entrepreneur began when I was fired from a consulting job and then had a minor falling out with the start-up I had joined as the second employee. I was 28, with no mortgage, wife, nor children then, and little to lose. I could afford to take a risk and start my own company. Just do it, I told myself. The result was lastminute.com. 我的创业之路始于从一份咨询工作被解雇，然后与我作为第二位员工加入的初创公司闹得有点不愉快。那时我28岁，没有抵押贷款，没有妻儿，没什么可失去的。我能承担风险，创立自己的公司。我告诉自己，想做就做。结果就有了lastminute.com。 Looking back, 28 is not such a young age to set out on an entrepreneurial career. Last month I was pitched a business idea by two 14-year-olds; the week before I launched a competition at my old school for ideas for education technology start-ups. 回头看，28岁对于踏上创业生涯来说已不是一个年轻的岁数。上月，两名14岁的小朋友向我推销一个商业创意；之前一周，我在母校发起了一场关于教育科技初创企业创意的竞赛。 We are now familiar with the concept that good ideas can come from anywhere: any age as well as any place or background. Young thinkers may be more inclined to see opportunities than constraints, and a splash of naive optimism is a good, perhaps even essential, quality in an entrepreneur. | 
