{"id":4565,"date":"2015-02-02T21:22:49","date_gmt":"2015-02-02T15:52:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/themagnumgroup.net\/Blog\/?p=4565"},"modified":"2020-04-03T22:54:42","modified_gmt":"2020-04-03T17:24:42","slug":"entrepreneur-selection-by-data-analysis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/themagnumgroup.net\/Blog\/entrepreneur-selection-by-data-analysis\/","title":{"rendered":"Big Data Analysis Identifies Entrepreneurs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"young surprised businessman holding money\" style=\"border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; float: none; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin: 0px auto; display: block; padding-right: 0px; border-top-width: 0px\" border=\"0\" alt=\"young surprised businessman holding money\" src=\"http:\/\/themagnumgroup.net\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/winner.Depositphotos_50322603_xs.jpg\" width=\"346\" height=\"346\"><\/p>\n<p><em><font color=\"#800000\"><strong>A venture capital company identifies entrepreneurs and offers them funding even before the entrepreneurs know they are entrepreneurs!<\/strong><\/font><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Imagine you are sitting on your front porch when a dump truck rolls up. It backs into your driveway and dumps a mountain of $100 bills onto it. Then the driver walks up to you and says, \u201cThe venture capital fund Bloomberg Beta has determined from data analysis that if you start a tech company, it\u2019ll be a blast. Here\u2019s $5 million to get it started.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>This isn\u2019t a daydream, folks, it\u2019s really happening.<\/strong> Bloomberg use data analysis technologies for mining tweets and information on Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn to identify 1.5 million professionals connected with technology and startups. Then they selected those who:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Lived in the Bay Area or New York<\/li>\n<li>Had worked at a startup<\/li>\n<li>Had studied at a top university<\/li>\n<li>Had worked in technology or business management <!--EndFragment--><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>These filters threw up 350 individuals most likely to succeed if they started a tech venture. 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Imagine you are sitting on your front porch when a dump truck rolls up. It backs into your driveway and dumps a mountain of $100 bills onto it. 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