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Startup Map & Trends Analysis – September 2012

Gust

Georgia and Pennsylvania bumped Illinois out of the top five, and were tied for fifth place. The top industries stayed relatively unchanged from the previous month, with Internet/Web Services and Consumer Products and Services leading worldwide.

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An Overview Of Cyber Risks

YoungUpstarts

by Bart McDonough , CEO and founder of Agio, and author of “ Cyber Smart: Five Habits to Protect Your Family, Money, and Identity from Cyber Criminals “ William and Nancy Skog had cherry-picked an impeccable, perfect, river-front residence in Wilmington, Illinois. If you hook it up to the Internet, we’ll hack at it. ?

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Twitter Link Roundup #71 – Small Business, Social Media, Design, Copywriting, Marketing And More

crowdSPRING Blog

Good to see innovation in delivering internet access to Africa (using voice control) – [link]. Revealing picture of how fucked Illinois is even compared to other troubled states like CA and NJ – [link]. Fun industrial design: Unusual and Creative Designs of a Door Stop – [link].

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Internet Sales Tax: Will It Level The Playing Field… Or Destroy It? [Poll]

ReadWriteStart

A bill that would allow states to collect sales tax from Internet companies like Amazon and eBay passed the Senate on Monday by a wide margin of 69-27, in a largely bipartisan push to help level the playing field for brick and mortar stores vis-a-vis their online competitors. The bill’s detractors claim it will create massive confusion.

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MentorMob.com Aims To Revolutionize Learning Through Crowdsourcing

YoungUpstarts

It’s undeniable how the Internet has revolutionized education , especially with the use of online video learning through sites such as Khan Academy. Chinosorn, a prolific “hobby collector”, and Leung, an engineer, became friends at the University of Illinois and both worked on several startups prior to starting MentorMob.

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Business Apologies: What You Should (and Shouldn’t) Do

ConversionXL

Jennifer Robbennolt , a Professor of Law and of Psychology at University of Illinois, gauged the reaction of survey respondents when they heard an apology throughout hypothetical injury-settlement cases. She vacationed to a remote location with no internet, only for her social media scheduling tools to stop working the day she left.

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Why the Browser Matters

Ben's Blog

Before my partner Marc Andreessen and his friends at the University of Illinois invented the browser in 1993, most people thought only scientists and researchers would use the Internet. The Internet was thought to be too arcane, insecure and slow to meet real business needs.

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