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eGuardian Partners With Education Firm

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Irvine-based eGuardian , a provider of service aimed at protecting children on the web, has partnered with safety education firm i-SAFE, according to investor the Tech Coast Angels. eGuardian develops technology for verifying the age, gender, and location of children on web sites. The TCA invested in eGuardian in August of 2008.

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Lynda.com Gets Award For Job Creation

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Lynda.com , the site which helps people learn software and other skills from online videos, has been recognized for its job creation, the firm said Friday, ranking number 1 in job creation in education by Inc. The company said it filled nearly 200 jobs from 2008 to 2011, tops in the Education industry. READ MORE>>.

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Interview with Daniel Scalisi, MobileCause

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We've now been operating for five months, and have become the leading web service for mobile fundraising in the country. It's a simple web service, where a customer can log in and can simply create and deploy any level of mobile donation or messaging campaign. It was founded three years ago, and hadn't been succeeding.

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Interview with Tom Allanson, PerfectForms

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PerfectForms is a platform for business users to create web applications, to provide visibility to processes, and to report on information collected. I decided to get back to startups in August of 2008. They were two venture funds out of the UK, who I talked to in the April of 2008, and they needed someone to run the company.

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Why Startups Are Attracted to Revitalized Lisbon

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Portugal was hit hard by the global financial crash of 2008. The city is viewed so favourably as a hotpot of tech talent that it was chosen to host this year’s Web Summit for the second year in a row. Its economy struggled to remain afloat during the crisis and it’s capital, Lisbon, suffered greatly.

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This Week in VC with Mo Koyfman of Spark Capital

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Mo was graduated from Wharton, worked in investment banking, spent 6 years at IAC (including in an operational role for Connected Ventures which includes College Humor, Busted T’s and Vimeo) before joining Spark Capital in 2008. Currently offers 3mm books to over 5,000 higher education institutions in the US. Read more: TechCrunch.

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How Kazuhm Is Reconnecting The Enterprise Cloud, With Tim O'Neal

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They sign up through a web portal, online, and they create a resource pool. That was probably around 2008 and 2009, and Intuit had lots of data centers. We worked on consolidation with business units, and did that for Bridgepoint Education and smaller companies, where I actually drove a lot of cloud migration stuff.