Self-employment holds growing appeal for those with an MBA or specialty business degree, with recent graduates more likely than older counterparts to become entrepreneurs immediately after leaving school, according to a new global survey of alumni by the Graduate Management Admission Council.
Entrepreneurs are still a minority of those earning graduate business degrees, with about one in 10 self-employed, based on responses from almost 21,000 business school alumni from the classes of 1959 through 2013 at 132 universities worldwide.
Self-employment holds growing appeal for those with an MBA or specialty business degree, with recent graduates more likely than older counterparts to become entrepreneurs immediately after leaving school, according to a new global survey of alumni by the Graduate Management Admission Council.
Entrepreneurs are still a minority of those earning graduate business degrees, with about one in 10 self-employed, based on responses from almost 21,000 business school alumni from the classes of 1959 through 2013 at 132 universities worldwide.
Based on our analysis, which you can read in greater detail here, these are the top 20 companies who look primed to raise a Series A soon (or already have, but didn’t announce it yet). I’ve filtered by startups who last raised between September 1, 2013 and January 31, 2014 with at least 15 employees and at least 20% employee growth in the past 6 months:
MEPs have called for tighter controls on European financing of Israeli companies. Lax regulation currently allows weapons manufacturers access to EU funding. EurActiv France reports.
The participation of certain Israeli companies in the EU's vast research and development programme Horizon 2020 has angered some European lawmakers.
The University of Leeds may have solved one of the biggest holy grails in medicine, the ability to measure blood glucose levels without penetrating the skin. Currently, finger pricking is the daily grind of diabetics worldwide, which also involves careful pipetting of the blood samples into the glucometer. Neither the pain nor the process is pleasant, and is particularly difficult for young children that don’t understand the purpose of it all.
Robotic surgeons were involved in the deaths of 144 people between 2000 and 2013, according to records kept by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. And some forms of robotic surgery are much riskier than others: the death rate for head, neck, and cardiothoracic surgery is almost 10 times higher than for other forms of surgery.
Robotic surgery has increased dramatically in recent years. Between 2007 and 2013, patients underwent more than 1.7 million robotic procedures in the U.S., the vast majority of them performed in gynecology and urology. “Yet no comprehensive study of the safety and reliability of surgical robots has been performed,” say Jai Raman at the Rush University Medical Center in Chicago and a few pals.
Call9, a telemedicine startup in Y Combinator’s Spring 2015 cohort, is launching out of beta today to connect patients in emergency situations to doctors on demand.
If a nursing home patient exhibits warning signs of a heart attack, a nurse calls 911 and waits with the patient for an ambulance to arrive. The average ambulance wait time is 15 minutes, according to Call9 co-founder Timothy Peck, and this can be the difference between life and death.
Chipmaker Qualcomm is preparing to lay off several thousand employees, or more than 10 percent of its 30,000-strong workforce, the Information website reported on Monday.
The chipmaker is expected to announce the job cuts when it releases its quarterly results on Wednesday, the tech website reported, citing people inside and outside of the company.
Qualcomm, which reported a 46 percent drop in second-quarter profit in April, is facing increasing competition from Taiwan’s MediaTek Inc and a handful of small Chinese companies that specialize in making chips for low-priced phones.
The target units for the job cuts could not be identified, the website said.
