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Anatomy of the Entrepreneur What makes entrepreneurs tick?

By Michelle Juergen

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What makes entrepreneurs tick? LinkedIn combed through more than 120 million public profiles to pull stats on entrepreneurs and compare them to the average member. Some common threads from the study released in September include:

Where do they come from?

  • Top five business schools: Stanford, Harvard, MIT, Berkeley and Dartmouth.
  • Companies that breed entrepreneurs: Adobe, Apple, eBay, Electronic Arts, Google, Microsoft, SGI and Yahoo.

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