A record-breaking 16% of the Stanford’s Graduate School of Business class of 2011 chose to start their own companies at graduation, exceeding the school’s 12% peak during the dot-com boom:
About 30% started companies in Internet services and e-commerce, but 15% ventured into investment and financial services, and 7% each in food and beverages, retail or wholesale, and sport or sports management. Roughly 5% of the Stanford MBA entrepreneurs launched enterprises in healthcare, with another 5% in cleantech and alternative energy.