LinkedIn was curious, so the business social network decided to find out. It mined the data of its more than 115 million users to understand the background of entrepreneurs. The result is an infographic that dives into the educational and corporate characteristics of the typical startup founder.
It turns out, more people ages 30 to 39 start companies than those ages 20 to 29. Education is a strong indicator of your likelihood to start a company. Prestigious business schools such as Stanford, Harvard, MIT, Berkeley and Dartmouth top the list of most-entrepreneurial schools. Engineering, physics and computer science majors were the most likely to start a company, while nursing, administration and social work majors were the least likely.
What companies are responsible for the most entrepreneurs? Big tech giants like Google, eBay, Yahoo, Adobe, Microsoft and Apple were common on the resumes of startup founders. Not surprisingly, San Francisco was the top startup region, with New York City in second place and Boston in third.
You can check out all of the interesting startup data in LinkedIn’s infographic below.
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This post originally posted by Ben Parr for Mashable.
