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It's cool that this batch is so international. I'm surprised to see companies from that many different regions. That said, I'm also really surprised, given how international this batch is, that there isn't a single Chinese company.
* VC money is more accessible for Chinese startups in China
* Chinese startups are mostly targeting local market
* Visa issues?
(these are all wild guesses)
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This is false and you know it.
* What proportion are from international universities (i.e., not the US)?
* What percentage of founders graduated from top 10 universities? Top 100?
* How many founders are PhD holders? How about MS? MBA?
Interesting stats. I don't get this section though: UNDERREPRESENTED FOUNDERS S17 Female founders: 35 (12% of all S17 founders) S17 Applicants who were female: 14% S17 Companies with a female founder: 27 (21% of the batch) S17 Applications with a female founder: 22% S17 Black founders: 14 (4.76% of S17 founders) S17 Companies with a Black/Af-Am founder: 8 (6.25% of the batch) S17 Hispanic/Latinx founders: 13 (4.42% o…
* We ask for gender on our applications, but we haven't asked for race/ethnicity, which is why we don't have the answer to your first question. * We see that it does for female founders. * Total number of submissions * Gender is reported in the applications. We asked founders in the batch to self-report for race/ethnicity.
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Another thing I've been curious about is how many of the founders had student loans when they started the company. I'd bet that student loans hold a lot of people back. I just paid mine off last year.
Student loans and health factors (specifically complications around health insurance or existing healthcare costs). Health considerations can be a massive issue when trying to do a start-up. At 30-40 years old (with the average age around 30, I imagine there are plenty of candidates between 30-40), some small percentage of people are likely to be running into their first health problems or concerns. Financially speak…
Like, you'd just have to work a month or two extra before quitting to cover a year of prescriptions.
Does anyone know which Dutch startup is in this batch?
It's cool that this batch is so international. I'm surprised to see companies from that many different regions. That said, I'm also really surprised, given how international this batch is, that there isn't a single Chinese company.