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Creative Minds, Student Startups
Students are known to be very resourceful in terms of their creative minds. There are many great ideas which have been generated by college students and managed to turn out as successful. Some of the students even ended up dropping out of college in order to make their ideas a reality. That tells you that if you have a valuable idea, do not shy off from executing the idea because you might just turn out to be the next Bill Gates or the next Mark Zuckerberg.
There are a good number of world class enterprises which have been started by college student. This infographic will take you through the most successful and valuable startups that have been launched by student. Form their humble student quarters, the students in this infographic managed to create something that the entire world is able to relate to. Their inventions have been identified to be very influential and popular among users across the world. The best part is that they were also able to create some of the most profitable startups in the planet.
The infographic identifies the startup together with its founder, their net worth, the institution they were in during time of their invention, the year the company was formed, the enterprise value and the market capitalization. From the infographic, Microsoft’s Bill Gates and Paul Allen tops the list of the most valuable startups launched by students. The company was founded in 1975 and currents boasts of having a total company’s value of $281.27 billion and a market capitalization of $342.51 billion. The two were both students at Harvard University.
If you are looking to launch a startup business while still in college, you can borrow a leaf from this 10 successful entrepreneurs who did not stop at anything until when they realized their dreams.
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10 MOST VALUABLE STARTUPS LAUNCHED BY STUDENTS
Are you dreaming of launching your own startup, but you are still a college student? Get inspired by the following infographic, which tells about the greatest and the most valuable businesses that were launched by students.
Enterprise Value is a measure of a company’s total value.
The Market Capitalization (Cap) of a company is total dollar market value of all of a company’s outstanding shares.
Microsoft
Founders
Names: Bill Gates and Paul Allen
Education: Harvard University
Net Worth: $79.3 billion / $17.5 billion
Company
Founded: 1975
Revenue: $93.46 billion
Enterprise Value: $281.27 billion
Market Cap: $342.51 billion
Founder
Name: Mark Zuckerberg
Education: Harvard University
Net Worth: $34.8 billion
Company
Founded: 2004
Revenue: $12.47 billion
Enterprise Value: $211.16 billion
Market Cap: $222.1 billion
Yahoo
Founders
Names: Jerry Yang and David Filo
Education: Stanford University
Net Worth: $2 billion / $3.3 billion
Company
Founded: 1995
Revenue: $4.62 billion
Enterprise Value: $34.21 billion
Market Cap: $40.94 billion
Founders
Names: Steve Huffman and Alexis Ohanian
Education: University of Virginia
Net Worth: $4 million / $4 million
Company
Founded: 2005
Users: 174 million
Enterprise Value: $240 million
Users’ Countries: 186
Founders
Name: Matt Mullenweg
Education: University of Houston
Net Worth: $40 million
Company
Founded: 2003
Enterprise Value: $1.16 billion *Enterprise Value of Automattic – WordPress creator
48% of TOP 100 blogs use WordPress: CNN, Mashable, The New York Times, Ebay, etc.
Founders
Names: Larry Page and Sergey Brin
Education: Stanford University
Net Worth: $30.2 billion / $29.7 billion
Company
Founded: 1998
Revenue: $66.00 billion
Enterprise Value: $326.19 billion
Market Cap: $380.81 billion
Time
Founders
Names: Briton Hadden and Henry Luce
Lifetime: 1898-1929 / 1898-1967
Education: Yale University
Company
Founded: 1923
Circulation: 3,289,377
Enterprise Value: $3.34 billion
Market Cap: $2.49 billion
Founders
Name: Shawn Fanning
Education: Northeastern University
Net Worth: $7.5 million
Company
Founded: 1999
Revenue: $156.21 million*
Enterprise Value: $78.38 million*
Market Cap: $256.32 million*
*Statistics about RNWK – the owner of Napster
Dell
Founders
Name: Michael Dell
Education: University of Texas
Net Worth: $18.8 billion
Company
Founded: 1984
Revenue: $57.2 billion
Enterprise Value: $22.2 billion
Market Cap: $24.4 billion
Tripod
Founders
Names: Bo Peabody and Brett Hershey
Education: Williams College
Net Worth: $10 million *Bo Peabody
Company
Founded: 1992
Revenue: $30 million
Enterprise Value: $17.45 billion**
Market Cap: $16.31 billion**
**Statistics about Lycos – the owner of Tripod
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