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Fastest growing companies founded by graduates

02/02/2008
Recent analysis of the founders of UK’s fastest growing private companies, commissioned by the NCGE, supports the view that graduate entrepreneurs drive the knowledge economy.

An analysis of the Sunday Times‘ Fast Track 100, which ranks Britain’s hundred private companies with the fastest growing sales over the latest three years, showed that 70% of the UK’s fastest-growing companies were founded by graduates. The percentage is even higher for the Tech Track 100, which ranks Britain’s fastest-growing private tech fiirms based on sales growth over the latest two years, as graduates founded 84% of these companies.
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