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Knowable Launches Audio Classes, Backed By $3.75M

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Los Angeles-based Knowable , which offers up paid, audio classes on a wide range of topics, said it launched on Tuesday morning, charging students $100 per student for access to a wide range of audio course on topics ranging from launching a startup to sleeping better at night.

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The Complete Guide To Southern California Accelerators and Incubators, Part I

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We've defined an accelerator program as a class-based, limited-time program which ties mentors, educational events, and often, seed funding, to help ideas become startups, and to help get startups to the point where they are fund-able. We've split this into three lists, depending on how the programs are structured.

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Knowmia | Win Win for College Students, Parents & Teachers

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Its featuring video lessons from experienced teachers, helps students understand challenging topics covered in class and helps them in their revision for tests or exams. ” Recently, Boundless Learning promised to make college education affordable by replacing college textbooks.

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Attention Startup Accelerators: Your Job Is Not Over After Demo Day

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With top-ranked accelerators Lauchpad LA closing its doors and Y Combinator rebranding itself as a seed fund, it seems fair to ask the question, “Are Accelerators Dead?”. Bringing an accelerators’ graduates back as mentors provides value to the next class, certainly. A version of this article previously appeared in Forbes.

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TX Zhuo Talks About LA's Newest Venture Fund, Karlin Ventures

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Specifically, we look at digital media, healthcare IT, e-commerce, education technology and financial services. I then went on to work for McKinsey for a couple of years, then got involved in Eric Schmidt's seed fund, Innovation Endeavors up in Palo Alto. I have been doing seed stage stuff for a while.

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Interview with Fariborz Maseeh, Maseeh Entrepreneurship Prize Competition

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The competition is set up to award $50,000 to the best team each year, and is also tied to a class on entrepreneurship for engineering students. We hope they'll ues that prize to seed fund and start their company, and see how it goes after that. Why a business plan competition, and why in engineering school? READ MORE>>.

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Top 30 Startup Posts for July 2010

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Interesting patterns emerged: Everyone makes the same classes of error. recently did a lecture at a Babson MBA summer class on Entrepreneurial Leadership. Some Thoughts On The Seed Fund Phenomenon - A VC : Venture Capital and Technology , July 13, 2010 There have been quite a few posts written about this meme in the past few weeks.

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