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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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Social Networking and Business Value

SoCal CTO

Sam Cimino, Sales Manager SW of YouTube/Google As YouTube’s Southwest Regional Manager, Sam is responsible for generating revenue across YouTube and the Google Content Network which comprises a media network that reaches nearly 80% of all internet users worldwide. He is known for being able to monetize the social web.

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Unlocking the Power of Data: Transforming Metrics into Actionable Insights

Duct Tape Marketing

Connect with John Jantsch on LinkedIn This episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast is brought to you by the DeskTeam360 Desk team 360 is the #1, flat-rate, digital marketing integration team, that helps small businesses and marketing agencies with graphic, web design, and on-page marketing services. That's hundred grand annual revenue.

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Three Startup Financing Myths You Should Avoid

YoungUpstarts

Going all the way back to Yahoo or Microsoft, the initial products (a directory for a nascent tech called the World Wide Web, and Microsoft BASIC,) didn’t look like billion dollar products at all. Sangha was a graduate of University of Pennsylvania and his first venture capital investor turned out to be an alumni. Who is in your tribe?

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The Early, Carnegie Mellon Days of College Prowler

Campus Entrepreneurship

In the business plans for the Prowler project, his professor advised him to develop solid revenue streams and not rely solely on advertising, thus avoiding the fate of the dot.coms which had gone belly-up in the 90s. “Four out of the five founders are not from Pittsburgh,&# says Skurman, who now lives in Shadyside.

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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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McComb’s School of Business Birthed uShip

Campus Entrepreneurship

The social Web was starting to heat up, but I liked how these guys and their company, uShip , were trying to take the Web and use it to bring people together, not to swap songs or photos but to take advantage of empty space in moving vans. The Austin (Tex.) What an impressive job by uShip and its founders.