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Demographics of Tech Entrepreneurship (ssrn.com)
6 points by michael_nielsen on May 3, 2008 | hide | past | favorite | 1 comment


An interesting quote from the abstract: "But, even though Bill Gates and Steve Jobs founded two of the world‘s most successful companies, they are not representative of technology and engineering company founders. Indeed, a larger proportion of tech founders are middle-aged, well-educated in business or technical disciplines, with degrees from a wide assortment of schools. Twice as many U.S.-born tech entrepreneurs start ventures in their fifties as do those in their early twenties, as this paper will show."




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