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St. Louis became the 22nd city to have a branch of the Founders Institute today. The operation helps entrepreneurs in a very structured four-month paid mentoring program. It involves intensive coaching and has resulted in more than 700 startups, with over 40% of them receiving funding. We have written about FI before here.

eXo offers an open source Java framework for enterprise social software tools. It includes reusable components for building content management systems, user management tools, activity streams, e-mail integrations, mashups and more.

This week it announced Cloud IDE, a Web-based development environment for cloud applications.

We're starting a new, weekly series here at ReadWriteEnterprise called the "Enterprise Startup Spotlight." If you'd like to submit a company for consideration, please review our submission requirements and send us an e-mail. These requirements are subject to change - and probably will once we get started.

Last week we profiled five enterprise startups to watch in 2011. Each startup is one that we think has great potential and hasn't received much, or any, coverage from ReadWriteWeb in the past. The five were: DokDok, Jama, Erply, SnapLogic and Podio. Which of these five do you think will be most successful in the new year?

At each Enterprise 2.0 conference, participants select one of four new or upcoming applications as the Launchpad winner of the event. Baydin, a quirky e-mail-centric startup, won at the Enterprise 2.0 event in Boston last summer (see our coverage) and enterprise collaboration suite CubeTree won at the event before that. Read on for our take on each of this event's four nominees, and to vote in our own poll on the applications.