什么是应届毕业生 指导MBA毕业生创业10大样板公司

指导MBA毕业生创业10大样板公司  

1. Wildfire Interactive
Founded in 2008 by Stanford MBA Alain Chuard and Harvard MBA Victoria Ransom
this social media marketing sofare pany was acquired by Google last year for a reported $350 million
plus $100 million in retention bonuses.
2. Viku
2. Viku影视
A class project of co-founders from both Stanford and Harvard
this video streaming startup based in Singapore attracted smart money from LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman and Singapore entrepreneur Joichi Ito. It is being acquired by Japan-based Rakuten for a reported $200 million.
3. Skybox Imaging
As a Stanford MBA student
John Fenwick popped into the university's engineering school and asked a professor to bring him the sharpest person there. That's how he met the future co-founders of this startup that is mercializing space imaging with a budget satellite fleet. Skybox has gotten $91 million in funding.
4. Karma Science
Launched in 2011 by Stanford MBA Ben Lewis and Michigan Ross MBA Lee Linden
Karma created a model for person-to-person gifting via mobile devices in real-time. The pany was acquired by Facebook last year for a reported $80 million.
5. Okta
Backed by $79.3 million in angel and venture capital funding
this identity and access management startup was founded in 2009 by MIT Sloan MBA Frederick Kerrest and former colleague Todd McKinnon. Kerrest earned his MBA on a Saturday in 2009 and the following Monday he was working full-time in Okta's first office in San Francisco.
6. SoFi
Stanford MBA James Finnigan connected with a trio of Sloan Fellows at the university to launch this student loan lending platform that has attracted $77.2 million in funding to bring offer loans and refinancing for MBAs and other grad students.
7. Locu
This online advertising startup was formed in 2011 by MIT Sloan MBAs Rene Reinsberg and Marc Piette and a couple of engineering savvy co-founders. It quickly signed up more than 30
000 restaurants
spas
salons and other panies to promote their businesses online. Locu was acquired this past August by Go Daddy for a reported $70 million.
8. Counsyl
Founded in 2008 in a Stanford dorm room
this startup came up with a simple
saliva-based test for more than 100 serious geic diseases from cystic fibrosis to sickle cell. Stanford MBA Ramji Srinivasan
now CEO and one of three co-founders
has raised $60.2 million in venture funding for the pany.
9. Warby Parker
Wharton MBAs David Gilboa and Neil Blumenthal came up with the idea to create a lifestyle brand of eyeglasses
using their classmates to help them establish pricing and even e up with the pany name
a hybrid of Jack Kerouac characters. Warby Parker now has $55 million in funding
including an investment from a marketing prof who still helps out with customer analysis.
10. Rent The Runway
Harvard MBAs Jennifer Hyman and Jennifer Fleiss founded this e-merce startup in 2009 with the idea to bring runway fashion to the masses via mail order. So far
they've racked up $54.4 million in funding from outside investors.