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Technology Trends: 10 Areas of Innovation to Watch for 2012

This is going to be BIG.

What types of things might happen in 2012, as opposed to needing another 3-5 years to come to fruition. That aside, here are ten areas I think you'll see some interesting things happening in 2012. One of the best things any investor can do is to pull back from the day to day of getting pitches and think about high level trends.

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U.S.-based “iThrone” Wins Global Competition at Fundación MAPFRE Social Innovation Awards

American Entrepreneurship

Her innovation is a p ortable toilet for human waste management for use in areas without developed water and sanitation infrastructures. Yousef has been a Research Associate at MIT for the past seven years, having launched change:WATER Labs in 2012.

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Startup Map & Trends Analysis – September 2012

Gust

Not surprisingly, many new startups across the world are in the development stage. This means almost 1 out of every 5 startups have a product in development, whereas less than 10% are product ready, and even less are in revenue stage, which make up only 3%. Check back soon to read October’s edition of the map and trends analysis.

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Beyond the Cup: Tracking Success Stories from the Entrepreneur’s Cup Series – Jessica Kinsey

Innovation 2 Enterprise

Jessica Kinsey Represented the University of Tulsa in 2012 Governor’s Cup 2012 High Growth Graduate Winner Currently CEO/Founder of Prodigy & Co Please provide a few details on your winning Entrepreneur’s Cup business idea. Our business was SpectrumFX. It was the most impactful thing I did as a part of my MBA program.

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Startup Business Funding: 5 Business-Breaking Misconceptions

Dream It

The first time, back in 2012, I joined as part of a mobile gaming company. We spent most of that summer developing the product while carving out time to meet investors and try to raise funding. In 2011, he founded Pota-Toss, a Kickstarter-funded iOS game, released on the App Store on October 2012.

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Startup Map & Trends Analysis – December 2012

Gust

in Development Stage, 34.5% Top 5 Us states remained steady this month and were consistent with their yearly averages. New startups creation stages remained steady and in line with the rest of the year, with 13.1% in Concept Stage, 43.2% in Product Ready Stage and 9.2% in Revenue Stage.

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How Founders Can Master Mental Resilience to Stay in the Game Long Enough to Win

Entrepreneurs' Organization

We asked Aaron Houghton of EO Colorado to share how he overcame burnout and developed a unique solution, Dory, to help him master mental resilience, which grew into the world’s largest community dedicated solely to stress reduction for entrepreneurs.