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Startup Map & Trends Analysis – September 2012

Gust

However, the states with the highest monthly increase in percentage terms were South Dakota, Kentucky, and Hawaii, also likely due to their small baselines, but yet demonstrating a potentially interesting trend. Interestingly, two new industries made it into the top ten, Education and Clean Tech, both with double-digit increase rates.

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PressIt, An Easy Way To Convert Original Content Into Merchandise

YoungUpstarts

Louisville, Kentucky-based online retailer of stock and user-customized on demand products CafePress has launched PressIt , a simple and effective way for bloggers or small businesses to monetize their original images and other content, by making it simple to put them on products like t-shirts, mugs and tote bags.

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How to Start a Real Estate Business

Up and Running

Morgan Franklin , a licensed real estate agent based out of Lexington, Kentucky, says, “I was confident [my idea] was going to work because I had already developed enough business to pay all of my startup expenses before I took my real estate exam.”. In real estate, there are a good 60 days or more before you could get paid.”.

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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. The breakdown: “We get most of our Facebook data by marrying up Facebook Insights data with our Web analytics from Adobe Sitecatalyst.

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How Many Variations Can You Have in an A/B/n Test?

ConversionXL

With a little luck, Android users in Kentucky referred by Google, iPhone users in Nebraska referred by Direct and Desktop users in NJ all preferred the redesign. Just as your audiences, conversions, revenue, traffic, etc. x 2000 = 100 statistically significant results purely by chance. ” There’s a Middle Ground, Too.

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30 Entrepreneurs Explain the Role of a Mentor in Their Business

Hearpreneur

She helped me learn the tactics of gathering revenue, finding investors for collecting funds, choosing an appropriate business niche, and many other things an aspiring entrepreneur needs to know before starting a business. This is important in the web space. Thanks to Dan Close, We Buy Houses in Kentucky ! #29-

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The Venture Capital Secret: 3 Out of 4 Start-Ups Fail

online.wsj.com

If failure is defined as failing to see the projected return on investment—say, a specific revenue growth rate or date to break even on cash flow—then more than 95% of start-ups fail, based on Mr. Ghoshs research. Web Design/Tech Services. WSJ Web Slice. LINKS TO ACTUAL PAGE CONTAINING WEB SLICE FUNCTIONALITY.