LinkedIn: Startup DNA
By Sumir Singh

LinkedIn has analyzed tens of thousands of startup founder profiles to find common threads linking their careers and they found

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Our infographic above shows the top over-represented business schools among entrepreneurs – with Stanford, Harvard and MIT Sloan taking the top spots. If that doesn’t come as a surprise to you, take a look at the distribution of the founders’ age at their first startup. While young (and serial) entrepreneurs are often in the spotlight, our data shows that 65% of entrepreneurs are 30 and older – and only 2% are serial entrepreneurs.

Some companies are breeding grounds for entrepreneurs – they’re more likely to appear on founders’ profiles than others. They include tech-heavy companies like Adobe Systems, Apple Inc., eBay (including Paypal, of the Paypal mafia fame), Electronic Arts, Google, Microsoft, SGI and Yahoo! among others.

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