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The Five Eras of Baby Boomer Entrepreneurship (Free)
The shareable one-page analyst brief from Issue 006. Born 1946-1964, the Boomer generation built and rebuilt American small business across five defining inflection points, from the entrepreneurial awakening of the 1980s to the agentic AI era unfolding today. Every figure is footnoted, with full citations in Issue 006.
What's inside: a single-page, print-ready PDF timeline of the five eras: The Eighties (1980s), Dawn of the Internet (1994), The Great Recession (2007-2011), Pandemic! (2020-2021) and Agentic AI (2024 forward). Each era carries the Boomer age range at the time and the figures that defined it. Sources footnoted on the graphic: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, U.S. News & World Report / Poets&Quants, ABA Journal, Workera and Section. White collar is defined as the four BLS occupation groups: management, business and financial; professional; sales; and office and administrative support. Long-tenured means 3 or more years with the employer.