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Mention business start-ups and entrepreneurship, and what often comes to mind is a twenty-something launching a business out of a garage. But the highest rate of business startups actually can be found among people over age 50. Sometimes these older entrepreneurs have financial motives - they need to keep working but have had problems staying in the lab…