Somewhat biased, based on demographics, duh people are going to found companies in the Bay Area much quicker than anywhere else, but none the less, Mattermark is using Big Data to figure out who is going to Found a company. Cool stuff..... Who are the people who have not yet started a venture-backed company, who are most likely to start one? We started with people living in the Bay Area and New York, where Bloomberg Beta focuses its investing. Here are some surprising things we learned: 38% of venture-backed founders are over 40 years old Only 15% of venture-backed founders have a Computer Science degree Management consultants are more than 2x more likely to be venture-backed founders than engineers 43% of venture backed founders worked at a venture-backed company immediately before founding Two thirds of venture-backed founders were not in a senior leadership position prior to founding Contrary to conventional wisdom, being “stuck” in the same company or position for a long time (even a decade) does not diminish your likelihood of becoming a founder
Posted on: Sun, 20 Apr 2014 20:17:39 +0000
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