Startup life here begins a bit later, and after a job

[SINGAPORE] Thanks to Facebook, and now HBO's latest startup sitcom Silicon Valley, the popular image of an entrepreneur is very much Mark Zuckerberg-inspired: a male, socially awkward geek in his early 20s, a tad unkempt, and whose "uniform" consists of a pair of jeans and a hoodie.

This stereotype is, of course, only a part of the entrepreneurship story. In Singapore, it is increasingly likely that entrepreneurs are older - 35-and-up adults who are …