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[US] The 10 Best Sectors That Are Boosting The Economy

YoungUpstarts

Some of the success found in the auto industry today is due to recovery in Japan, where a year after the March 11, 2011 earthquakes, top auto makers have once again reached pre-earthquake levels. Following a boost in holiday retail sales, the service industry has experienced a fast pace of growth in late 2011 and early 2012.

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VC Activity In Q1 2011 Back To Pre-Recession Levels

ReadWriteStart

The first quarter of 2011 saw these return to their pre-recession levels with financing for Internet companies up 83% from the last quarter of 2010. While about half of that was included in the fourth quarter of 2010, the rest was counted in this first quarter of 2011. Go Groupon, Go Illinois. billion in VC investment.

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Three Tips For Early Career Success From Max Salk

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Max Salk graduated from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign with a degree in finance and a minor in history in 2011. Although he discovered his passion for financial markets near the end of college, he wasted no time in building the career he wanted upon graduation.

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The National Science Foundation Innovation Corps – What America Does Best

Steve Blank

We ran the first National Science Foundation Innovation Corps class October to December 2011. In-between the 2011 pilot class and the first NSF class of 2012, I got a call from Congressman Dan Lipinski. Principal Investigator: Ali Abbas University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Congressman Lipinski Gets It.

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The 5 Rules Of Growing Your Startup: An Insider’s Take

YoungUpstarts

I mused in early 2011 when the thought of founding my own startup first began creeping into my head. Ali Syed is the founder and CEO of EZOfficeInventory , an asset tracking software launched via TechCrunch in 2011. by Ali Syed, founder and CEO of EZOfficeInventory. How hard can it be?’,

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Host a Livestream of The Lean Startup Conference

Startup Lessons Learned

For the 2010 and 2011 Lean Startup conferences , we offered the complete conference for simulcast so that people could join in from their communities around the world. This post was co-written by Eric Ries and Sarah Milstein, co-hosts of The Lean Startup Conference.

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Six Steps To A Safer Workplace

YoungUpstarts

A study conducted at the University of Illinois revealed the brain grows tired after focusing on a task for a long period of time. OSHA reports that more than 200 fires break out in workplaces across the country each day, which led to 143 worker deaths in 2011. The study showed workers who take breaks are markedly more efficient.

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