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Essential Facts and Statistics Every Entrepreneur Must Know

crowdSPRING Blog

We’ve curated important statistics and separated them into five categories: General facts and statistics. We’re partial to Chicago. Chicago is home to many successful startups, including crowdspring, Chicago boasts a thriving startup scene, an incredible 10 times a return on investment, and pretty outstanding hot dogs.

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Essential Facts and Statistics Every Entrepreneur Must Know

crowdSPRING Blog

We’ve curated important statistics and separated them into five categories: General facts and statistics. We’re partial to Chicago. Chicago is home to many successful startups, including crowdspring, Chicago boasts a thriving startup scene, an incredible 10 times a return on investment, and pretty outstanding hot dogs.

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MentorMob.com Aims To Revolutionize Learning Through Crowdsourcing

YoungUpstarts

But while there is plenty of great educational material out there on the Web, the problem is locating it; in fact, it is said that about 66-percent of time spent learning online is wasted simply looking for the right Internet sources. With MentorMob , you spend more time learning and less time searching.”.

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V1’s latest investment: Headout, a last minute marketplace for tours, activities and experiences

Version One Ventures

As frequent travelers, we have been watching this space for a while, but most players took a web-first, mobile-second approach. Web-first doesn’t make sense as travel experiences are typically something you book spur of the moment when exploring a new city (or a day in advance at maximum). In this $1.8M

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Small Business Spotlight of the Week: Colbrook Kitchen

crowdSPRING Blog

As cooking and entertaining enthusiasts, Piper and Kennedy curate the website to reflect their best recommendations for kitchen gadgets. We’ve both worked in the high tech world, but when we bought and the read the book “Web Marketing for Dummies” we underlined nearly every word. Everything!

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Money Out of Nowhere: How Internet Marketplaces Unlock Economic Wealth

abovethecrowd.com

What started as a web site to trade laser pointers and Beanie Babies (the Pez dispenser start is quite literally a legend), today enables transactions of approximately $100B per year. Popular categories include web developers, mobile developers, designers, writers, and accountants. billion of GSV (gross services revenue) across 2.0

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Twitter Link Roundup #255 – Some Lovely resources for Small Business, Startups, and Design!

crowdSPRING Blog

It has been freakin cold and snowy here in Chicago the past couple of weeks, so I thought I’d share this beautiful video of our beautiful city in winter. We do like to talk about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, economics and other interesting stuff!