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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. Not surprisingly, many new startups across the world are in the development stage.

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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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Startups and Small Business: 5 Things We Really Need From Politicians

crowdSPRING Blog

Cutting our taxes might help, but what would help more is growing our businesses and increasing our revenues. In the state of Illinois, new businesses can set up their new entity quickly and easily online and at a very good price. In the age of the Internet, there is no reason that forms need to be filed in person and in triplicates.

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Hazards of Hiring

www.ericsink.com

But in a small company that is funded by its own revenues, it is almost always a mistake to hire for a position before it is absolutely clear that hiring is the right thing to do. When I see a BS from someplace like University of Illinois or Stanford, I believe the probability of ending up with a successful employee in the future is higher.

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Top Social Media Measurement and Tracking Tools

www.foliomag.com

Social media audiences have effectively become another universe of prospects to tap, which means measurement and tracking is essential to yielding from these visitors both direct and indirect revenue. Web/Internet/IT/eMedia. Internet/Online Only. Internet/Digital Media. Finance/Accounting. Business Development.

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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. Increase recurring revenue. The best way to say sorry, in my case, was to use all of my revenue and invest it back into the customer.

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

crowdSPRING Blog

Love this post about how Meetup.com bet the company and changed its revenue model – [link]. 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]. – [link].