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Blackboard Acquires Elluminate and Wimba

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Elluminate and Wimba offer advanced virtual classroom technology that allows education institutions to hold synchronous live courses over the Web, including audio, video, white board and social learning capabilities. It will be a standalone platform in the company's education solutions. Blackboard Inc. and Wimba Inc.

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TechZulu Presents 2012 Startup Forecast | Featuring Science, Tech Coast Angels, Amplify, StartEngine, upStart.LA

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A serial Internet entrepreneur, Mike has founded, advised, invested and sold numerous businesses, including application platform Userplane, which he led from startup to its acquisition by AOL, Tsavo Media, Movoxx, PeopleMedia, Brizzly and Myspace. After its acquisition by Playdom, he was most recently head of the Acclaim studio and Sr.

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Spotlight: LA Tech Judges and SuperDemo Bill Gross of Idealab!

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In 1991, Bill started Knowledge Adventure, an educational software publisher that grew to be the third largest educational software publisher in the world and was eventually sold to Cendant Software and is now a division of Havas Interactive, which is owned by Vivendi. Chris Dumler , Co-Founder of Los Angeles Startup Foundation.

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Batch 8 500 Startups Demo Day | Our Top Ten

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This was a chance to blow open the story on their companies, to address a room full of potential investors, mentors, partners, customers, and press. We know language education is a huge market, with 1/7 of people around the world learning a new language.

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Spotlight: LA Tech Summer Judges Includes BetterWorks, CallFire, Idealab, and Tech Coast Angeles

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After the acquisition, MyMiniLife became the common technology platform at Zynga and powers 150M monthly users including games like Cityville, Farmville, and Frontierville. He is also an active investor with stakes in companies like Hipmunk, GroupMe, Facebook, Zynga (acquisition stock), and SV Angels. He received a B.S.

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CreatorUp Links You With Top Filmakers & YouTube Creators To Make Awesome Web Series

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Our combined experience working in film education and inside the traditional and digital entertainment industry gives us unique insight into building an authentic “film school like” education on the web. Indirect competitors include specialized sites like Animation Mentor (specific to animation).

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De-risk Your Startup By Doing It Again: The Joy Of Getting The Band Back Together

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After nailing lead generation in the apartment listing space, they are now killing it with respect to lead generation for higher and career education. Serial Team mentors will make fewer mistakes than a comparable adVenture led by inexperienced people who are learning on the job. Alma mater, CallWave: 2005 IPO. from the Wharton School.

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