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Startup Map & Trends Analysis – September 2012

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Within the US, California significantly led the startup scene, while New York, Florida, and Texas followed closely behind in subsequent order and remained in the same top places as August. The newcomer to the top five countries in September was the UK, which more than doubled its prior amount of monthly startups.

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Always Right: Five Risks You Must Take With Your Customers

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Besides the loss of potential future revenue, any sunk costs (costs you initially incur to gain the customer) are unrecoverable. Remember, a client’s real value is not the revenue made from their first order, but the total long-term value. That’s where word-of-mouth advertising begins.

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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs Dedicated To Steve Jobs, Reinforcing Mission To Restructure Capitalism

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Sramana Mitra is the founder of the One Million by One Million (1M/1M) initiative, an educational, business development and incubation program that aims to help one million entrepreneurs globally to reach $1 million in revenue and beyond. Much revenue waits to be unlocked. She is a Silicon Valley entrepreneur and strategy consultant.

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5 Big Problems Faced By Small-To-Medium US Manufacturers

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In its first year in business, a Florida Rock Industries management team faced a huge problem at their rock plant in Newberry when the high moisture content of raw materials caused a processing flow problem. Consequently, they are often dependent on each customer to ensure a steady revenue stream. A small customer base.

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Self-Awareness And Coachability: The Two Most Important Leadership Traits

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They need training in basics like hiring, firing, creating revenue streams, etc. He currently serves as the Entrepreneur-in-Residence at the University of West Florida. I find the most successful small business owners are those who are self-aware enough to know what they don’t know and take advantage of resources that can help.

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What is a Social Enterprise?

Up and Running

states for-profit companies can accept donations and nonprofit companies earn revenue, which dispels the myths that a nonprofit can’t make money, or a for-profit venture would miss out on donations. According to the Harvard Business Review, in most U.S. They also note that after the 2007 recession—when things looked grim for the U.S.

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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Spotlight on Latin and Central America

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Next, Alexandra Suarez-Mondshein of Miami, Florida, discussed Words To Live By , a neat concept of designing and producing high quality books with fine paper and fabric for special occasion gift giving. Words To Live By. and each book costs $375 retail.